One of the most prescient statements you made, that has stuck with me as I've watched the collapse of critical thinking in America, was this:
"The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth."

Congress and judges will not save you. The GOP has rolled over every time, despite the unpopularity of Trump and most of his key policies. The Supreme Court has already demonstrated enough loyalty to Trump to give him unprecedented powers. This process accelerates unless stopped.

Those actively working for Trump's takeover are the clear and present danger, but complacency is also a threat. "He hasn't done x yet, so he won't" is a fallacy. Don't confuse an autocrat's attempts with his successes. "What would he do if not stopped?" is the right question.

By the way, if you don't protest Trump weaponizing the Justice Department against his critics because they are people you don't like or agree with, you are assisting this fascist takeover. Wait until it happens to someone you like and it's too late.

With Russia on the march in Europe, Trump Putinizing the US, and KGB man Putin (and foreign minister Lavrov in a USSR shirt) in Alaska, no better time to talk to a man whose office is next to the Berlin Wall's infamous death strip. Please listen (or read) and share.

The space between crusading global policeman and “America First” isolationism is where the founder of Geopolitical Futures plants a flag. Is realism really realistic? Americans can look at Russia to see what happens when a leader puts personal power over national interests and calls it pragmatism.

I lived through the bizarre whipsaw of Republican Russia hawks like McCain pushing back on Obama’s ideological distaste for US power to Dems supporting aid to Ukraine out of opposition to Trump’s support from Putin and ‘America First’ nationalism. My constituency flipped while I stayed the same!