Obama’s Politics of Collective Redemption

“Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.” Pope Benedict XVI
A messianic fever grips a segment of the American populace and media. A great leader seems to them poised to redeem our collective [...]

Time for Republicans to Get a Grip

It’s one thing when your political adversaries denounce your Party and hold a gleeful funeral procession with your ashes on public display. We expect our adversaries to behave this way.
It’s another thing altogether when your own luminaries dance to the opponent’s fight song and give woeful credence to the wishful thinking of your adversaries.
The [...]