[people] Are Alike In A Sense That

Racial Inequality Has Gotten Worse In The Last Years Because Any Time You Have A Moribund Economy, The People Who Historically Have Had More Problems Getting Jobs Have Suffered. And That, I Think, Is Triggering A Lot Of The Animosity.

Multiculturalism Is A Good Reminder That When Standards Are Relative, There Are No Standards At All.

Trump Is A Symptom Of Widespread Disgust, Not The Head Of A Carefully Crafted Ideological Movement With A Checklist Of Issues.

The American People Are Not Naifs Who Yearn For Isolationism, But They Are Starting To Ask Some Hard Questions About The Way We Have Been Doing Business For 50 Years, And It May Well Be Time To Grant The French, Canadians, Germans, Turks, South Koreans, And A Host Of Others Their Wishes For Independence From Us: Polite Friendship - But No Alliances, No Bases, No Money, No Trade Concessions, And No More Begging For The Privilege Of Protecting Them.

For All The Criticism About Warlords, It Is Now Likely That Afghanistan Will Never Again Be Turned Over To Al Qaeda To Train Thousands To Conduct The Type Of Murder We Saw On September 11. For All Real Problems With Ambushes And Sabotage, There Will Be No More Gassings, Mass Murdering, Invading Neighbors, Sending Guided Missiles Across Borders Or No-fly Zones In Iraq, But Rather The Hard Work Of Consensual Government - A Difficult Process Easily Caricatured, But When Completed Universally Admired.