I admit I did not sit through Trump's speech on the war. I simply saw no reason to subject myself to it. But from the clips I saw, and the reaction of not only the usual "influencers" but former military leaders, historians, and other public figures speaking almost unanimously, we are in a real pickle here. We have a madman, with seriously diminished capacity and a capacious narcissistic ego incapable of recognizing its own incapacity to actually reason, who has, without any real planning, strategy or understanding, committed us to a war with no viable objectives, no plan to achieve them, and a whole raft of serious detrimental consequences to our country and the whole world. We cannot plausibly hope to return to anything halfway as good as the status quo ante... our best hope is that the Mad King will grow bored, cut and run, and leave us with enough of the momentum of our postwar power and industrial and scientific capacity that we can eventually recover.
If it is not obvious to any given person by now that this foolish old tryant must be removed from office as soon as possible, such person is almost certainly enthralled to the corrupt machine that is this regime. No person of normal perception and intelligence not corrupted by venal motives can fail to recognize that this man is completely unqualified to continue in office. I say this without the slightest shred of hyperbole.
I flatter myself that I recognized this man as a rotten hearted grifter virtually the moment I ever saw him in the media for the first time, which must have been around 1992. That our country would be virtually destroyed by this man, I admit I could not then have imagined. Some of us never fell for his scams, but we must unite with everyone now ready to cast him off, even if they had formerly been his sycophants. Only by uniting with all who share this common interest do we have any hope of achieving this aim.

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