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How does this history of hyper-patriotism coexist with the Republicans’ revered, practically deified leader, Donald Trump, calling America "a garbage can for the world," a global "laughing stock" or a "third world country"? How does it square with a Republican president playing the sycophantic beta-sidekick to Vladimir Putin, whose hostility to the United States requires no underlining?

It's too plastic and strange to square with the fleshy realities of human sex.

But the pattern is hard to square with a vice president who insisted, mostly backed up by a few anecdotes, that the greatest threat to Europe was “the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values” — i.e. from free speech values — “shared by the United States of America.”

“How does being a landlord square with your volunteering at the tenants’ union?”

And while the Dodgers had their doubts about that theory — to Friedman, it didn’t square with the camaraderie he witnessed from Japan’s victorious 2023 WBC team — they remained wary of the unknown deep into their discussions with Ohtani and Yamamoto.