The world is justifiably turning its back on us.

The Catholic Church is denouncing us.

Eighty years of allied power is over because of this administration and the party that enabled it.

As world experts are telling us, the Republicans may never appreciate the gravity of what they have done.

But this is a paradigm shift. The era of a United West,

led by the U.S. is dead. And we are all worse off.

Hello, and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's get into it.

So I am on the road right now. With everything going on in the media environment, I try to do mainstream media at least once a month so I can give the truth of fighting chance.

And right now, I'm in New York. But this past week was a real doozy. Or as Heather Cox Richardson said so succinctly, this past week was a year. We are living

through extraordinary times. And I don't know about you, but I hate it. And none of this is

necessary. But Dr. Richardson also identified this past week as very important turning

point for the United States, because when President Trump threatened to destroy the Iranian

civilization to wipe them off the face of the earth, America publicly threatened another

country with genocide. And the world, and a fair amount of the American public, was not okay

with that. Our country's leadership threatened 90 million people with

death. And in doing so, we terrorized the rest of the entire world, including our own, many of whom are

now genuinely afraid of our own government. It has become more than clear our government is irrevocably

broken, and the American experiment is a failed one.

And we know this because the Republican Party, the party in charge of both houses of Congress,

the presidency and essentially the Supreme Court, did not do or say anything when their president

made this abhorrent threat to destroy a 6,000-year-old civilization, which proves once

and for all that there is no level to which Trump can sink that will not be acceptable to them,

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