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How High Can Leadership Rise?
What is power accountable to when it no longer accepts limits? We have seen what happens when power turns inward—when it begins to believe it answers only to itself. There was a time when presidents understood that authority came with limits. Not just legal limits, but moral ones. They did not see disagreement—especially from moral voices—as something to be attacked...
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April 20, 2026
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