"Four more years of a president without shame, backed by a party without spine, amplified by a TV network without integrity, and the cancer will be in the bones of every institution that has made America America....
.... Re-electing Trump would mean that a significant number of Americans don't cherish the norms that give our Constitution meaning, don't appreciate the need for an independent, professional Civil Service, don't respect scientists, don't hunger for national unity, don't care if a president tells 20,000 lies in short, don't care about what has actually made America great and different from any other great power in history....
... America goes dark, if the message broadcast by the Statue of Liberty shifts from "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" to "get the hell off my lawn"; if America becomes just as cynically transactional in all its foreign dealings as Russia and China; if foreigners stop believing that there is somewhere over the rainbow where truth is still held sacred in news reporting and where justice is the norm in most of the courts, then the whole world will get darker. Those who have looked to us for inspiration will have no widely respected reference point against which to critique their own governments.
Authoritarian leaders all over the world in Turkey, China, Russia, Poland, Hungary, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Brazil and elsewhere already smell this. They have been emboldened by the Trump years. They know they're freer to assassinate, poison, jail, torture and censor whomever they want, without reproach from America, as long as they flatter Trump or buy our arms...."
Thomas Friedman, NY Times
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