I say this out of total sincerity a whole lot of anxiety. We need Joe now more than ever.

[Hortensis]

11. I'm also very grateful that we have a really good man for president.

Fwiw, though, a whole lot of our democracy's strength comes from the powers reserved to the states. And the more dangerous and oppressive a captured federal government got, the more determined the blue states would become. Many have been refusing and actively working against the demands of the Republican-controlled federal government, and doing what they need to do without federal money.

Plus, of course, our nation has always been, for 240 years, a nation of, by and for the people. That's our heritage, not the centuries of authoritarian rule embedded in other cultures that their peoples have often been persuaded to return to. It's scary that the RW subversives have advanced their treason and corruption as dangerously far as they have, but this isn't the first time things have had to get really bad before enough people wake up and get alarmed.

In the 1930s the major threats our Democratic Party defeated were also attempts at overthrow from both a socialist left and fascistic right. Other nations fell to one or the other. We didn't.