I had to teach myself, long ago, that I couldn’t follow my baby girl around and make sure the world was kind to her. - Bill Clinton

The antigovernment paradigm blinds us to possibilities that lie outside its ideological litmus tests and prevents us from creating new networks of cooperation that can restore economic growth, bring economic opportunity to more people and places, and increase our ability to lead the world to a better future.

That’s the permanent mission our Founding Fathers left us — moving toward the “more perfect union.

In America, racism is our oldest curse. But there are other divides — over religion, immigration, sexual identity. Sometimes the “them” strategy is just a narcotic to feed the beast in all of us.