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Jefferson’s rhetorical flourishes justified the creation of a new nation, but the Constitution gave us a government.
The most important divide today in American public life is not between Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and progressives, or liberals and postliberals. It’s between those who see governing as a spectator sport and those in the arena.
The first group—the commentariat—is made up of academics, cable news figures, talk radio hosts, columnists, pundits, political YouTubers, and the like.
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Andy Smarick is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Follow him on Twitter here.