Prep School for our Potential President
Tonight is the first Republican primary presidential debate of the election season. The debates are promoted as a way to distinguish the candidates from one another. But they are a terrible format for achieving that objective.
Currently, there are 38 Republicans who have declared they are running for their party’s nomination (though you’ve likely only heard of 17 of them). On the other side of the political spectrum you have 17 Democrats who have declared they are running (though you only know 5 of them). Can we really tell which of them would make the best President based on 60 second soundbites? Can we truly determine who has the relevant “experience” to be the chief executive and commander-in-chief based on how they answer a debate question?
No, we can’t. Which is why we need a better plan for knowing which of the candidates has acquired the skill-set needed to be the leader of the free world. That is why I’ve decided to design a preparatory course that would help prepare future candidates for the job, one that would (Acton Institute bias alert) promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles.
Read the article “Prep School for our Potential President” on blog.acton.org.
