Plot twist: Fox host Bret Baier does a surprisingly thorough and respectful interview with President Zelenskyy, thereby helping both Ukraine and the US save face after the Trump / Vance meltdown:
There's no saving face for America.
All the world knows The Criminal is on the side of global corruption and against #Freedom for the citizens of democracies around the world.
The American Century has come to a crashing end and with it the relative stability of the rules based international order.
People around the world will get to intimately understand the depradations of the late 19th and the 1st half of the 20th century.
Agreed. We need to fully realize what has happened, where we are, and what happens next. Every step of this descent has been characterized by a failure of imagination. Think the worst thing you possibly can imagine, and recognize that you are still not properly assessing how terrible it will be. Unless we start planning for worst case scenarios we will continue to be overwhelmed by each new horror.
Yeah, I'm with you. I keep replaying a lunch conversation with an old work friend who, like millions of voters considered warnings about Project 2025 to be hyperbole.
They learned the completely wrong lesson from The Criminal being held mostly in check by the establishment people he mistakenly hired to help him administer his power.
The challenge for grassroots leaders is to make the reality clear while keeping despair at bay. It is going to be very difficult job.