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Thornton Prayer's avatar

The most frustrating thing for me during the 2016 campaign was clearly seeing who he was and that he would trash the Republic for his personal vindictiveness while so many others didn't or dismissed the danger he represented. Now that he's occupying the White House, we're all going to deal with the massive fallout that could undermine the very existence of the country.

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Ed Kako's avatar

I'm usually able to summon some optimism or at least achieve a degree of comfort with a zone of uncertainty. But this week I'm all tapped out. I'm having a lot of trouble seeing how we escape this catastrophe, which is only partly -- and not even mainly! -- about Trump. It's about the GOP and their utter contempt for democracy. When one of the two major parties defects this dramatically, even proudly, from liberal democracy, it's extraordinarily difficult to save the system.

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