The Meaning of the Bond Between Trump and the American People

The deep emotional bond between Donald Trump and the American people is a historic factor which is rooted in features of Western republican culture known since Solon of Athens of the sixth century BC. First, that the sickness of a nation—of our nation—finds its way into every family, Solon warned, even if you run home to escape it, in will jump the hedge into your garden and pursue you into the inmost room of your house.