So, now America faces a series of very real choices. Do we maintain the American experiment with a democratic republic, or embrace Trump's and DeSantis' vision of a government that rigorously polices every aspect of business and our private lives?
-- Will The Little Mermaid be the last multiracial movie Disney makes?
-- Will the censorship of public school classes, intimidation of teachers and professors, and banning of books move from Red states to the entire nation?
-- Will we join Uganda -- marching to the tune of members of the American evangelical movement, pastors Scott Lively and Franklin Graham, and an activist group in Arizona -- in making homosexuality punishable by death?
-- Will our Supreme Court prevail in their assertion that billionaires buying politicians and judges is merely an exercise in "free speech" rather than naked bribery and corruption?
-- Will we continue to allow Red state governors to purge tens of millions of Americans from voting rolls, shut down polling places, and intentionally create mile-long lines to vote in Democratic neighborhoods?
-- Will American democracy -- what's left of it -- survive this onslaught?
Nobody is riding in to save us, the way we saved the world in 1945. Neither the EU, NATO, nor the UN will intervene. Our closest neighbors, Mexico and Canada, have already declared a hands-off policy toward US politics.
This time, the answer is entirely in our own hands.
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