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Listen. Trump has put us in alignment with Putin and Kim Jong Un, dictators who murder and oppress their peoples. He was able to do it because no one thought it could ever happen, but this is where we are and god help us if we don't open our eyes.
He has strained our alliances with liberal democracies and has continually governed as if an autocrat. He's told who he is, shown us who he is. He isn't just "challenging" our norms, he's broken them, and what happens when you break them is you slide into illiberal democracy.
And as it happens the news will tell you he's flirting with dictators. He's not. He's aligned with them. Period. End of story. National alignments change, particularly when there's a major political shift. That's what's happened with us. We're not going there, we're there.
This isn't a slippery slope. We're already at the bottom of the slope, looking back toward the top and wondering how we got here. Well, we got here because all the safeguards relied on good faith and duty. That's done.
Right now, there are a few ways this ends. Either some people step up and rectify this and it becomes a blip, or we keep sleepwalking into an illiberal democracy. And god help us if there's a major world conflict, a war where sides get chosen. If there is...we're in trouble.
We got here because of the myth that America is just aligned with the good and right, a myth that has enabled some of our worst crimes. Unfortunately, it also made us believe this situation wasn't possible, that it could never happen. We're here and there's no denying it anymore.
