People are just tired out from the endless national crises, their dread of the 2024 presidential campaign, the ugliness of it all.
Many people I talk with seem passive, discouraged, and are trying, mostly in vain, to shut out the political noise.
It’s almost as if people have been so beaten down by the last decade, they’ve lost the self-confidence to wish for more.
In these circumstances I turn to two leaders who knew something about projecting hope in exhausting times: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Churchill’s strongest sense was his romantic attachment to Britain’s past.
Persons:
I’ve, they’ve, Winston Churchill, Franklin D, Roosevelt, Duke of Marlborough, Churchill, Edward Gibbon, Samuel Johnson