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What We Need Most Right Now, At This Moment, Is A Kind Of Patriotic Grace - A Grace That Takes The Long View, Apprehends The Moment We're In, Comes Up With Ways Of Dealing With It, And Eschews The Politically Cheap And Manipulative. That Admits Affection And Respect. That Encourages Them. That Acknowledges That The Small Things That Divide Us Are Not Worthy Of The Moment; That Agrees That The Things That Can Be Done To Ease The Stresses We Feel As A Nation Should Be Encouraged, While Those That Encourage Our Cohesion As A Nation Should Be Supported.

The Tea Party Saved The Republican Party. In A Broad Sense, The Tea Party Rescued It From Being The Fat, Unhappy, Querulous Creature It Had Become, A Party That Didn't Remember Anymore Why It Existed, Or What Its Historical Purpose Was. The Tea Party, With Its Energy And Earnestness, Restored The Gop To Itself.

The Democrats Had Long Labeled The Impeachment Debate A Distraction From The Urgent Business Of A Great Nation. But The Republicans Argued That The Pursuit Of Justice Is The Business Of A Great Nation. In Winning This Point, They Caught The Falling Flag, Producing A Triumph For The Rule Of Law, A Reassertion Of The Belief That No Man Is Above It, And A Rebuke For An Arrogance That Had Grown Imperial.

Resentment Isn't A Magnetic Personal Style.

In Ancient Israel And Rome The Judge Had Appeared As A Stand-in For The Divine, And Corruption Was A Blinding Of The Representative Of The Divine.