George H.W. Bush: “Ours is a global economy now, and America must be able to compete.”

I think you are engaging in the soft bigotry of low expectations.

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.

No, I'm glad you're saying my name.

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…