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What Trump and His Mob Taught the World About America — The Atlantic The allure of democracy was the nation’s best asset abroad, but the president squandered it by inciting political violence. apple.news

Nascent democratic movements around the world will absolutely be harmed by what’s happened. Democracies that were in peril because of the pandemic will be harmed by what’s happened.

The world is going to be a demonstrably harder place to live in because of Donald Trump and his enablers.

For those of us who wept in 2016, we knew it would be bad here, he had basically already promised it. A few of us even saw something like this happening. But fearing it and then seeing it, and now knowing that the shockwaves will continue to resonate throughout humanity is a lot to swallow.

As an American, I am so sorry.