George H.W. Bush: “We are the most respected nation in the world.”

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

Hillary Clinton will get his vote in November.

But he hasn't heard my latest proposal. The bottom 99 percent will do well when they get to split Dick Cheney's stock options.

We know that free governments are the only way to ensure that the strong are just, and the weak are valued. And we know that when we lose sight of our ideals, it is not democracy that has failed. It is the failure of those charged with…