we are all feeling it today a general confusion the sense that the foundational Middle Ground has been lost I think this is occurring in three distinct senses politically we have a left that is moving toward kind of Cosmopolitan universalism that carries in its wake commitment to Identity Politics on the far right there are Rumblings of kind of reactionary blood and soil nationalism less so in America but certainly in Europe socially we are seeing The Disappearance of the middle as well we are losing the mediating institutions about which tocqueville wrote in Democracy in America notably the
family and the churches economically we're also seeing The Disappearance of the Middle America is committed to be a middle-class commercial Republic and in fact we are losing that very quickly and we must find some remedy to that problem
