Excerpt from a recent article by journalist Clark Hoyt in The Atlantic regarding the state of American society,

What happens when grievance and distrust reign,

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Only when we share the same facts can we begin to have a healthy debate about what they mean and what should be done about them. And then, hopefully, we can start rebuilding the other institutions that have undergirded our democracy for nearly two and a half centuries, and that got us through the Watergate years. Perhaps that will allow us to move on from a president who posted an AI video of himself wearing a crown and flying an airplane dumping excrement on millions of his fellow citizens.

Gerald Ford gave us the way forward the day he was sworn in: “Our great republic is a government of laws and not of men,” he said. “Here the people rule.””

We’ll see if that can hold in 2025; we’ll see if the great experiment prevails.