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Last sentence of epilogue: In some ways CN is the fruit of a society that has not yet lived up to the promise of the Am idea. There is work to be done & for now we are free to do it…Religious nationalists are using the tools of democratic political culture to end democracy. I continue to believe those same resources can be used to restore it.

Many leaders of Christian right like to dress up in red white & blue as true patriots. But they are the same who seek to pervert our institutions, betray intl alliances & make friends w/despots, degrade public discourse, make constitution a subcategory of their holy texts, demean whole segments of the pop…& celebrate the elevation of a “king” to the presidency who has made sport of violating dem laws & norms

52: For Drollinger & others, T’s king-like behavior isn’t troublesome. On the contrary it may satisfy their craving for a certain type of pol leadership. When God sends a ruler to save a nation, he doesn’t mess around; he sends a kingly king. And kings don’t have to follow rules.