Progressives oppose the death penalty, and they believe that this makes them morally superior to the majority of ordinary Americans (64% in the most recent Gallup poll) who support it.

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Call it what you will, but Heritage has a chance to help rebrand, refocus and reenergize ordinary people around the quintessentially American values the majority of us share, not those that are the most divisive.

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To have a chance at a majority, then, Democratic politicians need to give substantial numbers of ordinary people a reason to vote for them.

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And beyond it is a still more alarming thought: suppose English-majority areas in western and southern Quebec were to start taking seriously the idea that what Crees can demand ordinary Anglo-Canadians can too?

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