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“I’m really proud of that because we really worked hard. The band happened against all odds.”

He is the rare Democrat who is meeting the most stark and uncertain moment in the party’s recent history with a message that’s both urgent and, against all odds, upbeat.

Will this acrid-tongued, 69-year-old multimillionaire, a child of the rural Catholic haute bourgeoisie — he was raised in the house his mother’s family built in 1752 — turn out, against all odds, to be the statesman the world needs now, ideology and partisan affiliation aside?

The evolution of the toilet is a success story that, against all odds, has brought us an efficient, affordable, and high-performing consumer good.

“Not only are sweeps disruptive to the unhoused people who have created community, mutual support, and neighborliness along the Arroyo against all odds, they are also an obscene waste of city resources, and they accomplish nothing,” Gustafson wrote.