Greetings on this Friday, November the 8th, 2024.

Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's daily article written by Dr. Ryan Denison.

In the wake of Tuesday's election, members of the Democratic Party have spent a great deal of energy trying to explain why Kamala Harris lost and Donald Trump won.

And while most perspectives have covered the gamut from America's racist and sexist to President Biden should have dropped out sooner,

some less beholden to the party line are urging Democratic leaders to take a step back and be a bit more introspective.

Brett Stevens, for example, perceptively assigns blame to three larger mistakes of worldview.

Quote, first, the conviction among many liberals that things were pretty much fine, if not downright

great, in Biden's America, and that anyone who didn't think

that way was either a right-wing misinformer or a dupe. Second, the refusal to see how

profoundly distasteful so much of modern liberalism has become to so much of America. Third,

the insistence that the only appropriate form of politics when it comes

to Trump is the politics of resistance with a capital R, end quote. There is truth to all three,

but the first point in particular seems crucial to any objective understanding of Tuesday's

results. You see, America has always been a divided nation

to some extent. While we can, at times, unite around a common goal, even then, the diversity

that exists within our society will inevitably lead to some fairly clear lines between the

various groups that make up the nation. And that's all right. After all,

diversity cannot exist without differences, and God made each of us unique. However, we know from

Genesis 1, verse 27, that he also intended for us to share a common foundation as people made in his

image. It should not come as a surprise

that, as our culture increasingly rejects that foundation, we're struggling to keep our differences

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