The Deep Rot Exposed by the Biden Flap - WSJ Geral Baker, fomer editor

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All of this speaks to the triumph today not of reason—the defining characteristic of the Enlightenment values that made America great—but of emotion. Pundits, media companies and politicians have discovered that it is emotion, not reason, that wins votes and pulls in eyeballs. It’s fun and lucrative while it lasts, but the Greeks and Romans can tell you precisely what it does to a civilization in the long run.

Because this, in the end, is what undoes great civilizations. Defeat on the battlefield overseas or destructive revolution at home only comes when the rot within is so advanced that the seemingly robust institutional structures have been fatally undermined. The condition of public discourse today is absolutely the kind of rot with that sort of potential.