If, therefore, the Republicans really want to discomfit the president, they might do better to equate his incrementalism with ultimate failure.

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In parliament, it is the Greens who most discomfit the government.

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But there is also a prevalent attitude call it religious correctness with which genuine toleration is easily confused: a polite and well-meaning reluctance to engage believers in the sort of robust clash of ideas that might discomfit them.

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