Court rulings offer glimmer of hope

American values — — democratic governance, adherence to the rule of law, cooperation among allies, equal opportunity, journalistic freedom, etc. — — have been, for the past 250 years, a model for the rest of the world. The perversions served up by this Supreme Court and the administration stand at the forefront of an assault on those values.

But there is a glimmer of hope in the willingness of this court and other courts to reject the administration’s egregious departures from the moral high ground. Do the birthright citizenship ruling, the tariff rejection, the felony convictions of the president, preservation of funding for the press, etc., represent a chance for us to redeem our experiment in democratic governance?

We face a test. Is our system strong enough to withstand this assault on its fundamental values? Is the public motivated sufficiently to rise peacefully and demand changes? Can “this nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, long endure?”

Del Bloem

Hoffman Estates