1/ "Identity politics is an existential threat to the American experiment... Treating our fellow human beings as individuals instead of treating them as members of groups is unnatural...
2/ "The American founders' idealism lay in their belief that an alternative was possible. Their genius was to design a system with multiple safeguards against the forces that had made previous attempts self-destruct...
3/ "The introduction of identity politics into that carefully-crafted constitutional system... is the jungle, the primitive sense of us against them... It not only permits, but insists, that the power of the state be used to reward favored groups at the expense of everyone else.
4/ "That view of power is the defining characteristic of the natural form of government that humankind endured until the Miracle at Philadelphia in 1787." - @charlesmurray in his new book, "Facing Reality"
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