I deeply appreciate your recognition of the labyrinthine challenges we now face. I too am grappling with the stark reality that our figures, our so-called thought leaders, stumble and fumble as they cling to outdated playbooks, engaging with Trump as if the shattered rules of yesterday can somehow still frame today’s chaos. This isn’t a four-year storm to ride out. This is a seismic shift, a fracturing of reality itself, with half the nation untethered from the truth, adrift in a sea of conspiracy and grievance.

There is no deus ex machina, no neatly tied resolution waiting in the wings. This moment is not like those that came before; it is the culmination of decades of rot, a gaping wound that won’t heal without concerted, painful, and relentless effort. To pretend otherwise—to assume this resolves itself—is to lull ourselves into apathy, an unforgivable betrayal of the future we claim to fight for.