There have been leaders who have advanced positions with which I have disagreed, but in whom I had confidence that they had basic competence and good hearts. There are people to my right - many, many of them - who are decent, principled people - people who have inspired me and forced me to constantly think and rethink. At times I have been humbled by their example and learned that I could love them. These people are still there. They need to assert themselves, now more than ever.
The Democrats exhibited the very best of liberal progressivism while advancing conservative faith in American exceptionalism. The Republicans? They have lost their way in a morass of superficiality, slogans and demagoguery. I hope that proves to be an aberration. We need the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Reagan. But where is it? I hope it has not disappeared.
There have been leaders who have advanced positions with which I have disagreed, but in whom I had confidence that they had basic competence and good hearts. There are people to my right - many, many of them - who are decent, principled people - people who have inspired me and forced me to constantly think and rethink. At times I have been humbled by their example and learned that I could love them. These people are still there. They need to assert themselves, now more than ever.
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