So long, Chanp
“The Darkness At The Edge of Town”
Brian Williams
9 January 2021
“My biggest worry is for my country. The truth is I’m not a liberal or a conservative. I’m an institutionalist. I believe in this place and in my love of country I yield to no one.
But the darkness on the edge of town has spread to the main roads and highways and neighborhoods. It’s now at the local bar, and the bowling alley, at the school board, in the grocery store. And it must be acknowledged and answered for.
Grown men and women who swore an oath to our Constitution — elected by their constituents [and] possessing the kinds of college degrees I could only dream of — have decided to join the mob and become something they are not, while hoping we somehow forget who they were. They’ve decided to burn it all down with us inside. That should scare you to no end as much as it scares an aging volunteer fireman.”
Williams graduated from Mater Dei High School. He attended the Catholic University of America and then George Washington University. He did not earn a degree, ultimately interning with the administration of President Jimmy Carter. He later called leaving college one of his "great regrets".
