By Veronica Burchard, Crisis Magazine - America has long been known as an “experiment” in self-government. Writing to Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay in 1790, George Washington reflected on the meaning of the new Constitution: “The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment, for promoting human happiness, by reasonable compact, in civil Society” (emphasis added)... Note he said America was not just an experiment but the last great one. If that was his conclusion after watching our ally France’s Reign of Terror in the name of “liberté, éqalité and fraternité,” how much more would he be convinced today to watch us trade American founding principles for those same Marxist values, now called “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” ...