MICHAEL LEDEEN on Peggy Noonan on the American spirit. Ledeen summarizes thusly:

[O]ur intellectual and political leaders have no sense of the mood of the country. But that is not new. The new thing is that such types have now acquired an outrageous amount of power, and they are doing their damnedest to make us pay for our lack of adulation.

Read both articles. The national mood is not good.