As the great cynic, journalist H.L. Mencken wrote, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

Source: https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/01/11/ilhan-omar-is-the-democrats-problem-not-kevin-mccarthys/

It took the family of wildcatter H.L. Hunt 50 years to win their second Super Bowl.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/justinbirnbaum/2023/02/12/the-205-billion-hunt-family-just-won-the-super-bowl-heres-who-they-are/

The 2023 event will also feature a traveling exhibition of the H.L. Hunley combat submarine.

Source: https://www.postandcourier.com/northaugusta/community/csra-events-tequila-tasting-augusta-half-marathon-and-the-battle-of-aiken/article_56673f3e-abc0-11ed-937c-cb33b8bf2781.html

What I consider the most cynical utterance in the entire literature of Americana — H.L. Mencken's "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public" -- presents a point of view I eschew enthusiastically.

Source: https://theava.com/archives/208341