America is better than its worst parts. Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump don’t define us.
Polls show that large majorities of Democrats and Republicans support Biden’s sanctions on Russia, which he stepped up this month to ban all new investments there.
Jonathan Zimmerman
Opinion contributor
- American is united against Russia and in support of Ukraine.
- Trump has demonstrated his disdain for democratic norms and practices.
- Democrats have to resist the Trump-like impulse to write off American democracy.
Can the war in Ukraine bring unity to the United States? I’ve spent my career studying the many ways that Americans hate on each other. And it’s only gotten worse in recent years, as more and more of us reject the founding premise of America itself: that we can create a more perfect union.
