“Hasn’t the president failed to end the recession?” may be technically true, but it isn’t really useful to call someone a failure for not doing something they lack the power to do.
Specifically, this looks to me a lot like the Nirvana fallacy: the hollowness is comparing reality to imagined perfection, rather than a contradiction in terms as such.
Specifically, this looks to me a lot like the Nirvana fallacy: the hollowness is comparing reality to imagined perfection, rather than a contradiction in terms as such.