We are no longer the land of the free at the home of the brave.

We are now America, the reckless, unpredictable, predatory rogue nation.

That is this administration and it will be this president's legacy.

And that's happening now

honesty, honor, humility, truth, compassion, thoughtfulness, morality, true

and decency.

Don't let anybody tell you that these things don't matter anymore.

They do.

Bruce Springsteen taking it upon himself to refill and refuel the soul of our nation.

Hi again, everybody.

It's 5 o'clock now in New York from a bang to a whimper a week that started with Donald Trump's throwaway threats of mass murder and complete annihilation.

And a deliberate weakening of our global alliances is ending now

the only way that it seems it could. With Donald Trump somehow putting America in a weaker

position today and Donald Trump being in a weaker position today, tactically, politically,

and morally than he was on Monday. In normal times, in a healthy functioning democracy,

that would be politically speaking curtains, right? Lights out. Any politician in a democracy,

having failed so spectacularly, having been suddenly abandoned by huge and very high-profile members of their own political coalition,

a person in a democracy might recognize the inherent weakness of his or her position

and retreat or recalrate or improve or not, but it would come down to the same thing,

a limping along to the sunset of one's

political power or political lifespan. But as we've been telling you for a long time, right?

These are not normal times. And our democracy isn't completely healthy. And Donald Trump

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