Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.

Canada has a real civil service, which the United States doesn't have, an independent civil service. Canada also has a stronger federal system.

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.

The habit of going to your congressman's town hall and asking questions, that's powerful in a way that shouting slogans or getting arrested is not, that is completely counterproductive.

I don't think that disasters have to be spectacular. They can be a slow corrosion.

The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists, and Afghan Islamic reactionaries, to name only a few. Many of these discordant groups disliked the United States intensely. But Americans were able to mobilize them to direct their ire at the Soviet Union first.

We live in an age of de-democratization. The number of democracies in the world has been going backwards since 2005, and even many existing democracies including in Europe have been becoming less democratic.