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Decadence is underrated as a threat to Constitutional government. I don’t discount at all more structural explanations of America’s turn away from its history and traditions. But no matter how discontented Americans may get about institutions & so forth, they are sure they themselves are awesome.

It’s a grave national weakness to only find sin in other people. Corrosive of civic virtue and responsibility, it has left the door open to malignant influences. Trump is first among these, but he’s not alone.