The tradition has mutated into something bigger, dumber, and more dysfunctional than the Framers ever could have imagined.
The midterm results were frustrating for revolutionaries and reactionaries, great for muddlers-along.
To define the term as Miller and Bannon do is to let them set the terms of the debate—and to lose it.
Donald Trump’s rise, and Hillary Clinton’s loss, is not a sign that America is irredeemably bigoted.