Some damage can never be repaired.

they are horrible at purging and holding people accountable.

There is a lot to repair and rebuild. The Peter Thiels will always be out there lurking in the shadows.

The Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation should be deemed as terrorist organizations by the next Democratic president, if we still have elections.

Then the evil doers come right back and destroy everything again.

who have been groomed for decades by Putin.

Krasnov is one of a kind, not many people can get people to pay 25 cents to see the bearded lady, twice.

Putin is not going to bet on Trump alone.
He will have many contingency plans.

how he set up some displays, to the princess, the lioness, the tigress and then to the egress.
People paid their .25 and when they found themselves on the street were so flabbergasted, they paid another quarter to do it again.
Don't know if this is just folklore, but read that story many years ago describing Barnum's mastery of human suckery.

And the glass is half full.

I choose optimism.