But to follow this logic forward, we can’t stop with the Founders. The over half-million Americans who lost their lives and countless others who risked them to end slavery, the “original sin” of this country, also weren’t so great, you see. Their skin was generally too fair, their motivations insufficiently pure, and most were undoubtedly homophobes who couldn’t have conceived of modern concepts like gay marriage or a man literally becoming a woman.
Douglass understood the difference between his country’s timeless ideals and its failure to live up to them. He only demanded that Americans, if they wished to remain in an exceptional country, uphold the sacred principles that their ancestors had bravely fought for.
In the world of “cancel culture” and empowered social justice warriors, is it any wonder right-leaning Trump voters are uncomfortable transmitting their views in a public forum?
The fact that this election turned out to come down to the wire is a stunning rebuke of both the mainstream polling industry and the media in general. Across the board it appears that major pollsters got state after state wrong, and often by large margins.
No matter to the modern iconoclasts. It’s too much to expect one to think about what one is rushing to destroy. Obliterate now and ask questions, well, never.
It seems that when the polls are wildly off, they are wildly off in one direction. Time and again we’ve seen them vastly underestimate the numbers voting on the right as opposed to the left.