The Tragedy of America

The more the Democratic Party fails to match the intensity of Trump’s challenge to American democracy, the more it risks becoming complicit in the erosion of democratic norms.

I’m not disillusioned because Harris lost. I’m disillusioned because we lost. We lost the fight to keep this country from devolving into a grotesque parody of its former self.

We elected a shameless demagogue who peddles lies and hatred like they’re candy at a parade. I thought we were better than this. Maybe we were. But it sure as hell doesn’t look that way now.