(Photo illustration by Bill Kuchman/The Bulwark | Photos: Shutterstock)NOW THAT WE’VE COMPLETED our celebration of America’s 250th birthday it’s time to prepare for the 300th—the tricentennial. I will not live to see it but I hope the nation will.At least, I hope a certain kind of America will celebrate its 300th year—one that has regained its moral equilibrium and turned its back resoundingly on illiberalism in all its ugly forms. If the United States does not reverse its current retreat from the principles and traditions that ennobled it, if it becomes the kind of predatory, grubby, and aggressive nation that Donald Trump champions, or if it becomes the socialist shambles that a growing number on the left envision, then it will not deserve to celebrate a tricentennial.How do we find our