The signs are everywhere and flashing red. He and I agree… locked in an existential conflict over race and identity and culture. I spent much of the afternoon with Vice President Warner, who I have come to know as a deeply honorable and decent man. The democracies now die when we’re not looking, when we’re not paying attention…the end arrives slowly, like twilight. Turkey, Poland, Hungary, Nicaragua, the Philippines. When we think of democracies dying, we think of revolution, of military coups d’état, of armed men in the streets, but that’s less and less how it happens anymore. Our democracy is, and it is not Russia’s fault. Lately, I’ve been wondering where she’s gone. For over 200 years we have had an angel on our shoulder in this country.
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