There are moments in the life of a republic when reform is not enough.
What such moments require is not reform, but re-formation.

Americans have spent a generation trying to fix our democracy by fixing our politics. That is precisely why it isn’t working. The difficulties now visible in American public life are not primarily a political problem. They are a civic one. The associations, organizations, and shared practices through which citizens once developed the habits of self-government have weakened in ways that political reform cannot reach. Civic Re-Formation exists for the people doing the work of re-forming them, and for the funders, leaders, and stewards who support them.

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