Writing at the Claremont Review of Books, political scientist Charles R. Kesler thinks deeply about the election just concluded. I believe you’ll enjoy his conclusion, I recommend reading the entire article.
Trump has his own style of hyperbole, of course. But notice how his differs from the Democrats’. Conceiving of their own party as being on the right side of history, and the Republicans as ensconced firmly on its wrong side, the party of the glorious future versus the party of the discredited, oppressive, immoral past, makes it very difficult for today’s progressives to admire the American character and the American dream.
Trump feels no such reservations or doubts. For all his rough edges as a candidate and a human being, he thinks of Americans as a beautiful people based on a beautiful set of commonsense ideas. Perhaps that’s why he is on his way to building a new majority party, a truly ascendant coalition, brethren of the same principle.
At the end of the day, which suitor do you prefer? Someone who says you could become wonderful, or someone who believes you are wonderful? We may listen to the first one on Sunday morning at church, but we marry the second one.
