Trump has abandoned the deep and pervasive optimism that has always energized the American nation.
He left the ground open for Michelle Obama to embrace the underlying chorus of hope that runs through the American story: that our national history is an arc toward justice; that evil rises for a day but contains the seeds of its own destruction; that beneath the vicissitudes that darken our days, we live in an orderly cosmos governed by love.
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David Brooks, The Democrats Win the Summer
Brooks has a much deeper and broader view now that the collapse of the GOP has torn a hole in his heart.
from Stowe Boyd http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/148143093332
