Source: The Weekly Dish
by Andrew Sullivan
“I really don’t know what to write. The first month of 2026 has provided a series of events that have simply broken my heart as well as my brain. Sure, I knew this was possible; I predicted it ten years ago. The word I came up with in the week before the 2016 election to describe a Trump presidency, when I saw it coming, was ‘abyss.’ Why that word? ‘To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, we live in a republic, if we can keep it. And yet, more than two centuries later, we are openly contemplating throwing it up in the air and seeing where it might land.’ An abyss is being in mid-air in this rupture in our civilization.” (01/23/26)