James Mattis Gives the Country a Warning

Jim Geraghty

Making the click-through worthwhile: A warning from former secretary of defense James Mattis about what really threatens our country; House Democrats conclude that what the country really needs right now is high-profile hearings about the payments to Stormy Daniels; and Bill de Blasio loses interest in his day job.

‘Tribalism Must Not be Allowed to Destroy Our Experiment.’

In his new autobiography, former secretary of defense James Mattis writes:

What concerns me most as a military man is not our external adversaries; it is our internal divisiveness… We are dividing into hostile tribes cheering against each other, fueled by emotion and a mutual disdain that jeopardizes our future, instead of rediscovering our common ground and finding solutions. All Americans need to recognize that our democracy is an experiment and one that can be reversed. Tribalism must not be allowed to destroy our experiment.

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Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency

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“If you want to become conversant in every aspect of this [Russiagate] hoax that matters, if you want to be the one in your family that has the answers to any question about this, then this book is a must. Not only that, it is fun to read it... It blows this thing to smithereens.”

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