This age craves a Lincoln-like figure, who can steer the country through intense polarization

Whether by melancholia or meditation, the leader needs to discern truth through aloneness, while still heeding the crowds (or the group chats)

I worry, though, that we lack the spiritual infrastructure to allow such a leader to emerge

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I didn't say I wanted it -- I said the era craves it!

Socrates & Polybius called it 2500 years ago. the Founding Fathers knew this, hence the creation of a republic with elements of monarchy balancing elements of democracy balancing elements of aristocracy. the 17th Amendment was a mistake