It is September 3rd, 2024. Earlier this morning, dawn broke over the coast of Maine on Cadillac

Mountain. There are 63 days remaining until the last American will cast the last vote in the

2024 presidential election. One week remains to the first debate between the

disgraced president, Donald Trump, and the Democratic nominee and the freedom candidate,

Kamala Harris. This is the warning. At first glance, it may seem as if nothing has changed between yesterday and

today. But for many tens of millions of Americans, they will notice the imperceptible shifts.

Everybody's back at school now. There's a little bit of a chill in the air in most of the country. The days

are perceptibly shorter. We'll have warm summer days, but we remember now in this time of the year,

the awful attack on September 11, 2001.

A quarter century behind us almost,

but an event that defined a generation

and set America on a path to great failure

in overseas wars.

We have an opportunity now as a country

to move beyond that era and what followed.

What followed was Donald Trump, a reaction to the failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,

and the incoherence of American foreign policy.

The idea that we should spend trillions building democracies abroad when

hours was collapsing and decaying at home.

You see, when 40% of the population doesn't have $400,

when they're an emergency away from being financially wiped out, the words of a demigod,

promising greatness like this man's ring in their ears.

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