After Trump’s defeat of Hillary Clinton, the Democrats need to perform an autopsy; Republicans need an exorcism. - Charlie Sykes

How did a movement that was defined by its belief in individual liberty and respect for the Constitution, free markets, personal responsibility, traditional values, and civility find itself embracing a stew of nativism, populism, and nationalism?

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your
mistakes, learn from them.

We simply should not care about politics as much as we do, because it should not be as important as it has become. The question of who serves in political office should not be as consuming as it has become, but is a consequence of the concentration of power and expectations. There is a lesson here for both sides of the political spectrum. Our politics have become too toxic and scary, in large part because our government is too large and consequential.