“America is Not Morally Exhausted”

If you haven’t read it already, be sure to check out George Weigel’s short reflection titled “Giving Thanks for America.” Here’s an excerpt:

The vagaries of scheduling put me in Europe for the week before the November 4 election. In conversations in both Rome and Cracow, I was struck by the frequency with which friends and colleagues said that Americans would be electing the leader of the world, not just the leader of the United States. Why did they say this? It’s not because such sentiments reflect a realist appraisal of the facts of American power, although the people with whom I spoke were well enough aware of that—and grateful for it. Rather, the idea that Americans would be electing the world’s leader bespoke their convictions that, unlike Europe, America is not morally exhausted, and that America can still embody a nobler, more humane idea of freedom.