Escalating war crimes are straining the limits of public tolerance and congressional patience.
Billionaire influence and gerrymandered power are meeting unexpected resistance in the states.
Democratic accountability — long deferred — is emerging as the essential test for the post-Trump era.
Susan Demas and Edwin Eisendrath open a conversation that doesn’t need retelling so much as extending, especially when they draw a straight line from geopolitical chaos to the intimate, local erosion of democratic norms. The blunt recognition that “switching sides in a war” — which Trump essentially has done in Ukraine — has become a transactional gesture in Washington invites a larger point: once a government normalizes brutality as policy, every institution becomes complicit by inertia alone. The war-crime reporting they reference forces a national reckoning not just with illegality but with the culture that celebrates it as strength. And when the conversation turns to billionaires buying laws and district lines, it underscores a truth too often avoided — oligarchy isn’t theoretical; it’s operational. What’s emerging is a counter-movement built on institutional self-respect, small-d democratic instinct, and a refusal to let cruelty be the organizing principle of American power.
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