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In 2008, when America was in peak Barack Obama-as-savior mode, an artist by the name of Shepard Fairey designed a poster featuring the then-presidential candidate rendered in red, white, and blue with a single word on it: “Hope.”

The portrait was iconic not just because of the stenciling — it was hardly groundbreaking in style, and the thing was so primitive that could have been a screenshot from a 20-year-old Commodore Amiga game — but because of that one word — doing double duty as both a noun and a verb.

We were supposed to have “hope” that Obama was going to change things, of course. But we also supposed to hope that he could end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hope that he could improve the economy. Hope that he could give us all free stuff.

We were, in other words, to commit to an action: hoping. Now, let me ask you something, all ye........

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