Exceptional read. Conclusion below.

“[T]he chief threat to America, and indeed the West, is not an overseas regime like the Soviet Union or a foreign-born movement like radical Islam. To the contrary, it is a home-grown threat: the corruption and de-legitimization of our domestic institutions and the elite entrusted with the custody of the American way of life.”

americanmind.org/features/what-democracy-requires/neoconservatism-the-lessons-learned/