Schmidt is a columnist and editorial board member with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The 2024 election is shaping up to be a "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know" kind of contest.

Antonin Scalia, discussing the Devil in a recent interview, could easily have invoked Dante or Milton, but instead he named a work by C. S. Lewis.

The 2024 election is shaping up to be a “Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know” kind of contest. That saying is rooted in ambiguity aversion bias.