What Really Saved the Republic From Trump?

What Really Saved the Republic From Trump?

 

By Tim Wu

Dec. 10, 2020, The New York Times

 

 

아래는 위 기사에서:

 

But as every major moral tradition teaches, no external constraint

can fully substitute for the personal compulsion to do what is right.

 

It may sound naïve in our untrusting age to hope that people will

care about ethics and professional duties. But Madison, too, saw

the need for this trust.... A working republican government, he

argued, “presupposes the existence of these qualities in a higher

degree than any other form.”

 

It is called civic virtue, and at the end of the day, there is no real

alternative.