>What keeps America alive and together is the virtue of the average American if we take the results of 2016 and 2024, then our "virtue" is on life support lol,

>What keeps America alive and together is the virtue of the average American if we take the results of 2016 and 2024, then our "virtue" is on life support lol, still this is an inspiring speech and I'm honored to quote it and I thank you for writing it, hacker news thrives on good content like this. >counter-democratic "institutions." the US is very big, and a government is going to have a civil service, hopefully that span administrations as is often the norm, institutional knowledge is a thing. Obviously yes, some folks hate that shit. >America was a stable democracy from the beginning long before we had any of these institutions. history has entered the chat > I'd trade every Ivy-league grad in the world in all the most august institutions for a million ordinary Iowans. oh man, reminds me of my IT days, like database consistency was always some "ivory tower thinking", I hated 3 am troubleshooting sessions, especially since I was locked out of the bugfest that caused them. gives me flashbacks! you could literally be my boss lol >Why does it feature so prominently in your mental model of Trump? yeah, racism features prominently in my mental model of trump too. I think its part of the "reputation" part of reputation, resume and rapsheet.