Hi, I'm Alyssa Milano, and this is Sorry Not Sorry. Friends, the election did not go the way we want.

That's no surprise.

It's no shock to us now.

But it feels raw, and it feels painful.

And so, Alyssa and I wanted to share with you a couple of short pieces this week that we think are relevant to the situation in which we find ourselves.

The first is Franklin Roosevelt's Fireside Chat, which was delivered on July 28, 1943.

This fireside chat was delivered after the fall of Mussolini,

and I'll just share some of Roosevelt's words with you.

We will have no truck with fascism in any way, in any shape, or in any manner. We will permit no vestige of fascism to remain. Eventually, Italy will reconstitute herself. It will be the people of Italy

who do that, choosing their own government in accordance with the basic democratic principles of liberty

and equality. In the meantime, the United Nations will not follow the patterns set by Mussolini and Hitler

and the Japanese for the treatment of occupied countries, the pattern of pillage and starvation.

He continues,

In every country conquered by the Nazis and the fascists, or the Japanese militarists, the people have been reduced to the status of slaves or chattels.

It is our determination to restore these conquered peoples to the dignity of human beings, masters of their own fate, and entitled to the freedom of speech, freedom of religion,

freedom from want, and freedom from fear. We have started to make good on this promise.

I am sorry if I step on the toes of those Americans who, playing at party politics,

call that kind of foreign policy crazy altruism and starry-eyed dreaming.

Meanwhile, the war in Sicily goes on.

It must go on and will go on until the Italian people realize that the futility of continuing to fight in a lost cause,

a cause to which the people of Italy never gave their wholehearted approval and support.

I think that fits with where we are.

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