Today’s politics are too toxic, mean and divisive. People are too quick to demonize and dehumanize, too ready to dismiss all that we have in common as Americans.
That’s beneath us as a country. It doesn’t reflect our values; it’s not who we are. That’s why, since I first declared my candidacy for president, I’ve said: I’m running to restore the soul of our nation.
I first learned those values growing up in a Catholic, middle-class family in Scranton, Pa., and Claymont, Del. I learned them at my father’s dinner table, at Sunday Mass and at St.