This is the warning. Good morning from Santa Fe, New Mexico. I've spent the last few days

driving across the country. I've driven from Toronto, Canada, crossing the border down through the

path of old Route 66, from Chicago to the gateway to the west coast, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The Santa Fe Trail, one of the routes that carried Americans west.

It's quite an astonishing thing to be able to cross a peaceful international boundary

and then drive for thousands of miles.

There are no checkpoints. There were no military vehicles on the roads.

There was no evidence of a mass deportation, no roundup, just freedom to drive, to go wherever it is

that I pleased as an American citizen heading west into California later today.

Thought about that. I thought about the country. And I thought about what's coming 39 days from now.

The country will be transformed radically and profoundly if Donald Trump does the things that he says he is going to do.

During the election, people, myself included, evaluated Donald Trump's words, his conduct,

and concluded that this wasn't conservatism, it was fascism. In the aftermath of his victory, which was not a majority,

but rather a plurality, Donald Trump has declared a mandate. The fact is, he has one of the

smallest mandates that any president has received over the last hundred years. When all the votes are counted, he'll fall in

somewhere between 16th and 18th place. But what is Donald Trump? Is he the danger that his words

suggest, or simply a PT Barnum, a showman, an incompetent leader, a blustering politician,

and there's not much to worry about. This is the fundamental and most important question,

isn't it? What is and who is Donald Trump? And why can it not be revealed by an American media that focuses on the connection

between the things he says, the lies he tells, and the actions he undertakes? What's coming in

America is an age unlike anything that anyone alive has ever

experienced. The corruption to come will be beyond imagination. For example, Elon Musk, in just the period

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