As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, we will hear tributes to the Founders and see politicians wrap themselves in the “Spirit of 1776.”
My new Hartford Courant opinion piece argues that we should stop treating the Founders as patriotic decoration and take their warnings about executive overreach, congressional weakness, and the use of public office for personal gain seriously.
American exceptionalism is best understood as a commitment to the restraint of power. That commitment is being tested.
Many who most loudly invoke the Founders are not preserving our inheritance. They are squandering it.
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