There is a concept I don’t want to forget whenever I come across the MAGA nonsense about being patriotic, being true to the American ideals or preserving democracy.
This retrospective and misguided effort appears to want to derail the dynamics of an active, evolving democracy by returning to an imagined notion of what people thought a couple centuries ago. Based on the enlightenment experienced by the country in the intervening centuries, many early notions in 1776 now appear severely anti-democratic, bigoted and misogynistic.