A Facebook comment I made following this op-ed by David Brooks:
If you read this op-ed piece without looking at the name of the author, you would demand to know more. You would demand to know how we can build a new national narrative, revive family life, restore community bonds and our shared moral culture. You would want some names of potential national and local leaders who are able to think "about our shared social and moral formative institutions and how such institutions could be reconstituted". These cults of ego worship on the left and the right have been ripping us apart since at least the Vietnam years (and I'm old enough to have witnessed this close-up). Perhaps the language of "recovery" will help: We (that's the "we" implied by 'E Pluribus Unum') have not yet reached the bottom and are unable to admit that "we" have a problem. Judging from the year we all have experienced, I think we may be getting really close. I'm going to save this op-ed piece to use as a measure for any "leadership" that emerges in the near future.
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