Sublime

sclerotic

vituperation

“Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

Something has gone wrong with the last best hope of earth. Americans know it—the whole world knows it. Something has gone wrong out there, too.

now it’s clear that all the important trends began in the seventies. It was the end of postwar, middle-class, bipartisan America.

Inequality destroys the sense of shared citizenship, and with it self-government.

back to where we were before, but yet we will

The destruction of a shared reality does more damage than economic decline or impeachable acts.