Republicans Appeal To The Hero. Democrats Appeal To The Victim.

“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else,” Charles Dickens wondered. He feared that if he wasn’t the hero, then he would surely be the victim of his own life.

Dickens, like most of us, would like to be the hero. That means that we have achieved our important goals and that we are, at…