“Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power,” Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in the nineteenth century. “America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.”

If de Tocqueville were alive right now, he would be appalled at the state of America. Under the rule of socialist Democrats in the White House, Congress, and many state and local governments, the country is more divided now than at any time since the Civil War.