Real patriots will take measure of this moment—as the founders did—and look more deeply into the work of building and repairing the institutions that hold the country and the economy together, rather than capitalizing on the friction that pulls them apart, as George Washington warned people were prone to do. Both sides of the red-blue divide now blame the other for getting the country to this unstable place, and both often employ dangerous hyperbole to prove their points. Patriots can draw on the roots of a common identity. This is perhaps the most important first step to building a new path
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