The whole article is worth a read …
Democracy is not about I or us vs. them. Democracy, as Obama often says, is about the word we. It is big, messy, and noisy. It is inclusive, welcoming, and tolerant. It's about a willingness to compromise and assume good faith in others. It's about a belief that America is not the project of any one person, party, race, or religion and that we all have a responsibility to find a way forward, together, even if we don't get everything we want, even if we don't always win the argument, even if sometimes we take two steps back.
UPDATED COMMENT : June 14th, 2018
This article was written by Jon Favreau just 2 years and 2 weeks ago. The whole direction and conclusion he came to turn out to be so wrong - you wonder how it might have ever got written.
The again - pretty much everything he wrote about Trump was spot on. We knew so much including this;
In this campaign, Trump has been called “utterly amoral,” a “con artist,” a “fraud,” a “pathological liar,” a “serial philanderer,” a “narcissistic egomaniac,” a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot,” the “Kim Kardashian of politics,” “ISIL Man of the Year,” a “cancer on conservatism,” and an “orange-faced windbag” who shouldn’t have access to the nuclear codes. And those are just the views of his fellow Republicans.
… and nothing and everything has changed.
November 2018 is really just around the corner, are we ready?