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In the past hundred years, our country has faced a number of crises of a world-wide dimension, including the Great Depression and World War II. There was Republican push-back to FDR’s economic and social solutions to help us get out of the Depression, and there was isolationist opposition to entering WW II. But as we look back on those times, one of the characteristics that has become most memorable is the sacrifice that the average American demonstrated then. People united and proudly pulled together.

Rather than having a president that pulls the country together, today we have a preside...