Negotiations

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Trump, a ludicrously inept negotiator, says that he will negotiate with Putin over Ukraine. I do not know how bad things will be, but I am not optimistic. Trump’s slogan is “Make America Great Again,” but his actions make America an unreliable ally, and therefore, aside from other evils, weaken its international position; meanwhile, the growing national debt works to erode the country’s capacity to afford military strength, lower taxes, or government spending on anything other than interest payments. We have descended from the days when President Kennedy proclaimed our determination to pay any price and bear any burden.

Trump’s re-election demonstrates that a very substantial part of the electorate consists of fascists not loyal to the Constitution, and of low-information voters bamboozled by the fascists. The longest-lived democratic republic in history is doing its part to make corrupt authoritarianism appear to be the wave of the future.

Let us admire the heroism which the Ukrainians have displayed in defense of their country, and resolve to imitate it.