20: Burning Highway

“What makes Unit 1 so fun to cover is the overwhelming likeliness of failure. And that’s not just me being a cynic, which I am!” [laughter] “But seriously, never in my thirty-five years of reporting have I followed an individual or a group so vastly in over their heads. And to be clear, it’s not their fault. That’s the tragedy of it. They’re tasked with an impossible responsibility and ill qualified to handle it. But that’s because—you ready for it? They weren’t created to win! We have to be honest with ourselves, at least in that. Their purpose is to humanize the undemocratic machine that is the Consortium, nothing more. They’re a construct, a farce, and yet the SDC throws them at problems that are very big an...

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