As revolutions go, it’s probably better to be subjected to the bloodless kind. Our current ideological revolution (bloodless so far, at least) seeks to throw America’s Founders down from the heights of past admiration. This must be done, we are told, because they violated every standard that thankless and petulant Americans can anachronistically muster for their indictment.
Unlike this current revolution which demands ordinary vices from ordinary persons, the American Revolution and Founding demanded extraordinary virtues from ordinary persons. This is the theme of Andrew Farmer’s Ordinary Greatness: A Life of Elias Boudinot, published by the American Bible Society as part of its ongoing efforts to situate the role of Biblical faith in American history.
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