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For the Love of Country, Pull Back from the Brink

By Joseph Loconte & Samuel Gregg

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March 2, 2021 6:30 AM

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The future of conservatism, and the nation, depends on coming together and restoring faith in the American story.

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE B efore the outrageous assault on the U.S. Capitol, before the rancor of the 2020 presidential election, before the mob violence that engulfed cities across our nation last year — long before all this, Americans had been engaged in a fierce struggle over the history, meaning, and future of the United States. The American Founders, it is worth recalling, faced an even more fearsome challenge: to bring together different views and competing factions to build a unified, federal, and democratic republic. The possible consequences of failure focused many minds in Philadelphia in 1787.

Just so, the minds of many conservatives today are …

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