George H.W. Bush: “The war is not over. And it will not be over until either we or the extremists emerge victorious.”

More than 220 years later, Washington's warning feels strikingly relevant.

This means that people of every race, religion, ethnicity can be fully and equally American. It means that bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed.

We've seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty.

We live in troubled times with a military deployed around the world. We need a strong leader.