“Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not”. — Jeremiah 5:21

For almost 250 years, the United States has been governed by people who accepted the teachings of John Locke and some of the other philosophers of the Enlightenment. They believed in the rule of law, not of men, and they believed that people were capable of governing themselves. That stood in opposition to the teaching of Thomas Hobbes, the author of “Leviathan,” who believed that people needed to be governed by an absolute ruler, i.e., a monarch or a dictator. Hobbes perceived democracy, where the people rule, as a prescription for anarchy.

Today, we have in President Donald Trump, America’s first rightful heir to the teachings of Thomas Hobbes, a 21

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