Donald Trump's Big Goal Is To Become

Democracy Takes Work. That's The Thing We're Really Finding Out, That, You Know, In Many Ways, You Know, The Past Two Decades We've Taken For Granted All Of The Extraordinary Achievements Of The Post-war Generation. You Know, Building This Global Alliance Structure That Has Kept The Peace Across The North Atlantic Since World War Ii. Building All Of These Institutions, Building All This Remarkable Technology. And People Have Privatized. You Know, You Can Now, You Don't Have To Go Outdoors Much, The Whole World Comes To You.

We're Not Free Because Other People Are Nice, Maybe Other People Aren't Nice That Day. We're Free Because We Expect The Institutions Of Government To Work Impersonally. That We Expect People In Government To Understand They Don't Work For The President Or The Prime Minister, They Work For The Government. And The Government Is Always There.

But The Thought Leaders On Talk Radio And Fox Do More Than Shape Opinion. Backed By Their Own Wing Of The Book-publishing Industry And Supported By Think Tanks That Increasingly Function As Public-relations Agencies, Conservatives Have Built A Whole Alternative Knowledge System, With Its Own Facts, Its Own History, Its Own Laws Of Economics.

If We Say Something Often Enough, We Come To Believe It. We Don't Usually Delude Others Until After We Have First Deluded Ourselves.

More Irishmen Died Fighting For Britain In World War I Than Died Fighting Against Her In All Of Ireland's Bids For Independence Combined.