Darn good slogan. It sums up the contrast, and the choice.
My weekend was brightened by the return of Peggy Noonan to the WSJ (she's been on sabbatical for a while). She describes the choice as between reason and unreason. The American democracy is a precious experiment, enduring but yet still an experiment, Noonan writes of two Republican Senators corresponding with her, august solons both, who described the Dems' behavior thus:
One found it "amazing" and "terrifying" that "seemingly, and without much thought, nearly half the United States Senate abandoned the presumption of innocence in this country, all to achieve a political goal". The other cited a "truly disturbing result: One of the great political parties abandoning the Constitutionally-based traditions of due process and the presumption of innocence."
The Dems badly, in Noonan's words, overplayed their hand. They exposed themselves as willing to reject democratic traditions of discourse and debate not shouted down by mobs. The GOP has an opportunity to shine by opposite example, not by jumping into the same dystopic sewer.
