Obama attorney general Eric Holder complained, “When I hear these things about ‘Let’s make America great again,’ I think to myself: ‘Exactly when did you think America was great?’. . . . It takes us back to, I think, an American past that never really in fact existed with this notion of greatness.”2 This viewpoint does not only suggest that America’s history is replete with sins; every nation’s history is. This viewpoint suggests that American greatness can never be achieved. It sets perfection as a goal, and then attributes failure to meet those goals to the very nature of America and
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