“Donald Trump Struck a Righteous Blow against Universalism,” David French, National Review.
A curiously fluffy piece, with little real substance. And I could even sympathize with the most basic point: democracy requires a certain soil, although I suspect David and I would disagree on the composition. For me, the embrace of democracy requires a dissatisfaction with the status quo, much as we see with the American Revolution and subsequent formation of the Confederacy (no, not that one) and then the Federal system, and the recognition of the adherence to justice in order to satisfy the citizenry; that the fragmented form embraced in colonial America was considered an ideal speaks to the disaster of theocratic monarchies.
