Ours is a nation built upon a set of ideas — ideas not rooted in bloodlines and burial plots but in values and ideals. Anyone who doesn’t understand something so fundamental about the United States is unfit for high office.
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That was the implausible message of their convention’s opening night.
The Republicans’ gathering in Milwaukee next week will be simply this: a four-day fealty fest.
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