Experiments Fail, Even Noble Ones 0
Writing at The Roanoke Times, Pete Hamilton is not optimistic. A snippet:
Today it appears that Franklin’s cynicism might well be justified; that Hamilton’s optimism may have been premature; and that Lincoln’s bright vision of our national origins could possibly be approaching an inglorious conclusion. Could the American experiment in democracy be doomed to the same fate of those “petty republics” of ancient Greece and Rome?
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