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It is Tuesday, September 30th.

This is the warning.

And the American crisis is deepening.

Everywhere you look, the evidence of this rings out.

There is a meeting in Quantico, Virginia, today where 800 generals and admirals, every what they call flag officer from around the world, has been summoned to a meeting to be lectured by the drunken secretary of war, Pete Hagseth, about the warrior ethos.

But now, of course, Donald Trump has hijacked the meeting,

and the commander-in-chief himself will expect to bask in the adulation of the men who swore an oath,

not to a president, but to a republic, to a constitution. A constitution that goes all the way back to the beginning, the Constitution

that George Washington became president after it became the law of the land.

The country's in big trouble, and there's something that we should talk honestly about.

Three years ago, in 2022, after playing a leading role in the 20 campaign running the

Lincoln project that helped elect Joe Biden. I made the point that was screaming in every

poll, which was the American people thought a rematch between Biden and Trump was a national catastrophe.

Think of the absurdity of the message.

The Democratic Party on the one hand said, correctly as it turned out,

that 2024 was an existential election, that everything was on the line, that our democracy was on the line,

that liberty was on the line. And yet, the corrupt leaders of that party demanded the same type

of submission of their voters demanded by Donald Trump of his. Democratic leaders demanded their voters be deaf and dumb

and blind and on their knees to the idea that the only person in the whole Democratic Party

that could defeat Trump was Joe Biden, who couldn't make it up the

stairs and couldn't speak in a coherent sentence. So his wife, in a handful of AIDS, bullied

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