The Practice of Power

By Peggy Noonan

All this reflects a political culture of brute and mindless disdain, the kind of culture that makes divisions worse…..They do this because they do not understand that they have an actual responsibility to hold this thing, America, together, every day. The more placid, more cohering nation they grew up in is in the past. Unity, cohesion and respect are no longer things that can be lauded now and then in prepared remarks. They actually have to be practiced.

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