The reason that I’m happy that Trump survived the assassination attempt is that America cannot and will not survive this period of darkness and shame if Trump is for whatever reason buried and, by a huge number of hateful and ignorant voters, martyred.

As a country, we either inspect and come to understand what has happened over the last decade or will be stuck in this stupidity in perpetuity.

“In perpetuity” more actually means “until we’ve become irrelevant on the world stage.”  When and if it becomes clear that the U.S. has permanently lost whatever moral character it once possessed, when we’ve become an admitted ally of Russia, when we’ve become inextricably linked to the other most murderous regimes of the world, we will have no more authority on this planet than Chad or Paraguay.

This is precisely where we deserve to be.

I Come Not to Bury Trump