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Professor, As with nearly every other country, we’re not impervious to a fatal weakening of our civic institutions or to a Presidency eager, and under the right circumstances, able to consolidate power, wherein the rule of law could be subjugated to an individual. Still, for the past 24 hours, I increasingly have sensed the import of building on the outcomes of the 22 midterm election that, in my view, include a renewed definition of ourselves as citizens—something closer to the nation of active stakeholders that leaders like Thomas Jefferson had in mind.

Quoting a fellow subscriber albeit from an entirely different context, “We can’t take our foot off the gas pedal on this one.”

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