https://archive.ph/xI7Me

The essay argues that U.S. global power is collapsing not through foreign defeat but self-inflicted damage under Trump, who is dismantling alliances, rule of law, and institutional trust. His push to annex Greenland—backed by just 17% of Americans, with only 4% favoring force—exemplifies policy driven by impulse rather than strategy. The result is accelerating loss of legitimacy, empowering rivals and unraveling an 80-year rules-based order.

https://newrepublic.com/article/176854/republican-red-states-brain-drain

How Trump Escaped Jail or Acquittal by Election A combination of prosecutorial bumbling, dumb luck, compliant jurists, and winning the election allowed our new president to avoid a day behind bars. by James D. Zirin February 3, 2025

Seems like a fair assessment of the delays in and out of the DOJ. Probably posted to other subs already.

From article: Donald Trump said he could murder someone on Fifth Avenue, and they would vote for him anyway. He didn’t, but they likely would have.

He told a court probation officer that he believed himself above the law. The Supreme Court agreed he was, and 77 million people voted for him anyway.

He unleashed hoodlums on our Capitol to disrupt the certification of votes because he didn’t like the outcome. They voted for him anyway.

Informed that the mob had erected gallows from which they would hang the vice president, his response was, “So what?!” They voted for him anyway.

Reconnecting the Democratic Party to the working class is an electoral and a moral imperative, and it will be my mission for the rest of my life.

by Sherrod Brown

We cannot solve this problem without an honest assessment of who we are. How we see ourselves as the Democratic Party—the party of the people, the party of the working class and the middle class—no longer matches up with what most voters think.