I am starting to get the feeling that there is cosmic, karmic, or divine justice in this time. As a society we have reached an inflection point, a confluence of trends and habits that are forcing us to choose who we want to be as a nation. American history is riddled with periods that are at odds with the higher ideals laid out at our country’s founding. Preeminently among those moments is slavery, but one can easily point to immigration policies throughout, to Japanese internment camps, and populism associated with anti-Catholicism among the other “antis- du jour.” It is that fundamental, often highly successful, vilification strategy that populists use, a “Trump card” if you…