Our Constitutional Republic faces a clear and present danger more deadly than that of the Civil War. The danger is the Republican Party, a "political party" that has sold out to white supremacy, autocracy, misogyny, and hatred of everything our Nation stands for. Republicans dismiss any sense of a common American narrative. The "Republican Party" is an outlier in our history – ideologically extreme; contemptuous of social and economic policies that have sustained us for a century; unwilling to compromise; dismissive of evidence, fact, and science; dismissive of the legitimacy of any viewpoint except their own. America needs to face the simple, frightening fact that the Republican Party is a clear and present danger to our Constitutional Republic.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, JOSEPH BIDEN, VISITS KYIV, UKRAINE, AS AIR RAID SIRENS WAIL

President Biden’s secret visit to wartime Kyiv is an example of America in its finest tradition.

The New York Times reports that after a “trans-Atlantic flight to Poland, Mr. Biden crossed the border by train, traveling for nearly 10 hours to Kyiv as other American officials have in recent months.”

This trip took guts.

At home, it may often feel like our republic is irretrievably fractured. Abroad, mistakes and wrong turns (along with four years of Trump and assholes like Marjorie Taylor Green) have tarnished our reputation for competence and steadfastness. But America is still, for all its faults, seen in dark and terrible places as the last best hope. Beyond our shores, people still react to our presidents with hope.

Two presidents in front of St. Michael’s Cathedral, Kyiv, Ukraine

Notice this is THE President of the USofA . . . not the old blubbering fool living in a motel on a golf course in Florida.