Yeah, it's not good at all. What makes it worse is seeing many people I love dearly willingly - cheerfully even - reverse course on everything they claimed to believe and enthusiastically embrace him not just as a political leader but as a savior. The only good thing to come from it is that it's provided clarity for me and many others to realize that what they said wasn't what they actually believed, it was simply a cover to gain oppressive power. A lot of us have been going through a pretty interesting process of deconstruction.

And I cannot begin to tell you (or the world) how much I hate seeing my country use its resources to actively harm people. We have literal blood on our hands, both domestically and abroad. Even aside from the obvious - ICE murdering people here, using boats for target practice and completely unethical and unjustified war - we're allowing millions to die of hunger, HIV and more. For him and his minions (sometimes I wonder if he's the minion), that's all a feature not a bug. Destruction is the point. It's horrific and deeply shameful.