The mark of a healthy democracy is the preference for argument rather than invective. Those are the roots the left must reclaim. (Stephen L. Carter)

The mark of a healthy democracy is the preference for argument rather than invective. Those are the roots the left must reclaim.

Stephen L. Carter

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