My dad used to tell me that God helps those who help themselves. Accordingly, and contrary to the beliefs of some, America’s exceptional place in the world is not a birthright. Has God blessed us? Yes. But did he give us a perpetual grant of good standing? No. It’s for this reason that Benjamin Franklin observed in leaving the Constitutional Convention that we had been granted a republic “if you can keep it.”

And here I am worried.

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