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Suppose you were Deputy President William Ruto. A bit of a stretch, I admit, but give me my counterfactual for the moment. Ignored, embarrassed, derided and abused, would you have resigned from your office? Or would you have remained silent, swallowed your doubts and, like a good soldier, fought a good fight?
One problem with the counterfactual is that it is very hard to know what Ruto is like, or what the world seems to like to him. It is even harder - indeed, perhaps incoherent - to suppose some indeterminate mix of you and Ruto that a question in the form of what “you” would do if “you” were “William Ruto” seems to demand.
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