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The Left’s historic error of disdain for the people
In my February 14 commentary, I concluded with reference to an article by Ed Warren, “Rediscovering Our Shared American Values: What I learned on my journey through small-town America, the military, tech startups, and elite universities,” which maintains that average Americans are decent and honorable men and women who reject the conflictive ideological extremes of the Left and the Right. I begin today’s commentary with an explanation of why I appreciate Warren’s article.
American civic virtues and their decline
Warren writes of the influence during his childhood of his mother’s commitment to evangelical Christianity tinged with historical consciousness, and he writes of his subsequent experiences in college, the Air Force, the cleantech private sector, and graduate school at elite universities. He evolved from conservative to liberal through these experiences, but what struck him most was that there was a shared foundation of practical valu…