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Appreciate the history lesson, the greater context and the snark. Trump is just the toddler at Putin's knee, but as such, incapable of realizing it.

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Several thoughts coalesce in my mind. First the stark reality of what I’ve considered since Trump began his run for president. Putin has masterfully manipulated a simple-minded boob. Using his xenophobic racism to twist American politics & utterly cripple our ability to or willingness to defend ourselves. By corrupting those who were seemingly incorruptible, Putin has accomplished that which others have only dreamt of. He has brought America to it’s knees in utter anguish, depression & sorrow. Exacerbated the infighting that had, up to now, remained under the surface & opened a wound that should have been cauterized a century ago. Trump has Americans divided into groups of those who are unrealistically hopeful of the next election & those who are desperate to do anything, literally anything, to hold onto power.

The other thought that has been nagging at the back of my consciousness since 2016 was the knowledge that Hillary would have kicked Putin’s ass during her term & disbelief and disappointment that she seemingly gave up & walked away so easily upon her unfair defeat. The latter being the most profoundly felt. When I vote for a President, I do so with the expectation that they take the job seriously. They put their entirety into it. They aren’t just doing it for prestige & that they truly want to do everything within them to protect & serve America & her citizens. It is with that hope that I cast my vote for President. And it is with the understanding that the Presidency is just a four-year temporary job that has left me in the deepest depression.

I grew up admiring the tenacity of the French underground & the heroic risks taken by those who fought the Nazis at home & under occupation as dual agents. I realize now that I romanticized them. They existed in a reality that Americans have no desire for. Americans would rather exist in our daily lives and complain about things rather than actually fight for them. Americans have no stomach for an actual sacrificial fight. I tell you truly that in 2016 I was certain with every fiber of my being that by this time, four year later, there would have been groups of us underground working actively to hide immigrants & doing whatever actually needed to be done in the fight against tyranny. I was certain that life would not continue, Americans wouldn’t allow it. There were enough of us who were not fanatical gun-owners that we would quietly begin training to defend ourselves & our neighbors. I was certain that Hillary or a surrogate of hers, willing to get dirty, would be leading us. I was wrong. The reality is it will have to get far worse before any of this is evenly remotely considered. But with the coronavirus & the corruption & everything else, I fear by the time it gets that bad, it will be far far too late for any of us.

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