How To Write An Opening Sentence

This is the stuff:

In the final night of this past week’s National Conservatism Conference, Senator Josh Hawley—a graduate of Stanford and Yale and a former instructor at an English private school—warned the attendees gathered in the ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton in downtown Washington, D.C., about the threat of élite cosmopolitanism.

It lives up to its promise too.

…In contrast:

Here's JD Vance using 41 words to say the 14 words https://t.co/lF4CXD2Qsj pic.twitter.com/bHQIuBTk06— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) July 21, 2019