What Do We Do With Remorseful Trump Voters?

So what now? Do we forgive them? Blame them? Re-educate them? Punish them?

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Last weekend, my daughter forced me to sit down and watch the Broadway musical Hamilton with her on Disney+.

It was my first time.

And while I loved every second of it, I couldn’t help but shake this feeling of overwhelming sadness for what’s happening to our country in 2025.

I am intimately aware of the details that led to the formation of our nation but watching it in Hamilton’s hyper-stylized hip-hop style conveyed a context that I had never considered: The sheer euphoria of starting a new nation and taking control of your destiny. It was here that the melancholy set in…

If the Founders presided over the start, I get a front-row seat to watch it end.

Look, the United States has never been a perfect nation; far from it. But it was one of the few nations to slowly move, over time, toward progress.

It’s like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the destruction of the United States of America. But more importantly, I’ve been trying to imagine what the US will look like in five or ten years.