America’s founders risked the gallows. What are we risking?

America’s founders risked the gallows. What are we risking?

America is only months away from celebrating its quarter-millennial birthday — officially billed as “America 250” and even, in some quarters, a “Super Centennial.” But will America make it another 50 years, all the way to its tricentennial? Even as President Trump wages an existential conflict abroad, another one rages at home.Without question, the country has lived a long and remarkable life. But the world also knows it has not been free of gra…