Rahm Emanuel, pictured above, was heralded in one of my recent blog postings for his very sage advice on how to bring up one's children in the very best way. Emanuel's #1 child-rearing precept, which I completely endorse, is the following: "Meals matter. If you want to raise successful children, families have to eat together" (emphasis added).
I have repeated that advice here, in my blog posting today, just because I do think that this is extremely good advice. It bears repetition. In fact, though, today's blog posting has another main point.
Emanuel, it appears, is getting ready to run for president, and according to a column in The Wall Street Journal, he is presenting himself as a "Renewal Democrat." The other option, according to the column by Matthew Continetti, is to be a "Resistance Democrat." You can read Continetti's column yourself, if you want to, but only if you can slip past what I think is likely to be a pretty robust paywall. Continetti's column is titled, "There's Only One 'Renewal Democrat.'"
Personally, I would have to say that "Resistance" needs to be a primary focus of anyone who wants to run for Congress this year, or for anyone who might be running for president in 2028. "Resistance" is absolutely called for at this moment in our nation's political life - unless you like what our current president and his appointed officials have been doing in Minneapolis, Minnesota in in Iran and the Middle East (to pick two, extremely dramatic, examples).
"Renewal" would also be nice, don't you think?
Why do Continetti and The Wall Street Journal indicate that we have to choose?
I don't want our next president to have avoided resisting what our current president and his henchmen (a "loaded" term, I know), have been doing. I also don't want our next president to be unaware of the need profoundly to "renew" what it means to be an American, and to "renew" our nation's self-understanding.
"Both-And." Is that really too much to ask?
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