It's Monday, January 26th, 2026.

From Peachfish Productions, it's the gist I'm Mike Peska.

I was reading about a couple who decided to leave the United States.

There was a phrase used to describe their thinking that the author of the article didn't really spell out, but it stuck with me.

The phrase was moral injury.

They saw Trump's re-election on what the country has become as a kind of moral injury. The piece

was written before the killings in Minnesota, but over the weekend, I kept thinking about

that phrase. Now, this is not where I am personally, but I understand how people get there.

Many don't see these incidents, these shootings, the last two killings, as isolated excesses or

a strong man or want to be strongman or already is strong man doing his thing. They see them as

confirmation as the proof that the story they

believed in no longer constrains behavior. Most people knew, of course, America wasn't perfect,

that it was contested, but the feeling of those who are morally injured. And in the case of

the story, I was reading, it's people who felt they needed to live the United States, I think for many, many people who are more than just

aggrieved at an injustice. It's more and worse than the feeling this isn't the country I thought

it was. It's more like, I don't want to walk around all day inside a place that constantly

reminds me of a story that now hurts on a psychic level, an unshakable disillusionment. It's like

being inside of grief where everything is a reminder of who you just lost, except what you just lost, is the idea of your

country. The constant contradiction of what maybe you thought it was or could be and what it is

causes a kind of pain. So let's get to the ICE incident. About 40% of the U.S. supports these

efforts broadly, meaning if you ask them, do you support Donald Trump

on immigration? They still say yes. It's down at least 12% from its height. I don't think most people,

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