Don’t know the half of it

Election year agendas are crowded enough with items that are, shall we say, less factual than fact-adjacent, but this time we’re having to make room for a maddening quotient of utterly unknowable issues as well.

The agenda is divided into important issues we know about – whose magnitude is generally well understood but about which politicians fairly differ and squabble – and equally important issues we won’t have the answers to until after polling day. It’s possible the known unknowns are more important and will be more influential than the knowns. In other words, this could be a guess election.

For instance, if –