Obama and Slotkin’s selective defense of American ideals

Gerard Baker’s recent lament in the Wall Street Journal, “America Abandons Ideals at Its Peril,” is the work of a man who came to this country by choice and loves it the way converts love a faith. He invokes Gen.
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