unifying

Politicians of all stripes, our president and president-elect among them, make promises of unifying our divided nation yet rather than finding common ground, the public bifurcation continues to intensify.

In 2008, after Obama had beaten Clinton in a bitter race for the party’s nomination, he was desperate for her unifying support.

Autobiography presents an alternative to identity-blind frameworks that tend to prioritize ideas to the exclusion of individuals and identity-driven frameworks that ignore the power of unifying ideas in favor of individual experience.

But one of them has run a ragged, undisciplined and often listless campaign, increasingly focused on blatantly false claims and hateful invective, and without the slightest pretense of “moderation” or unifying rhetoric.

The holiday seems nostalgic and innocent, even unifying in its appeal to the one thing we all share: that we were children once.