Hi Fern. You raise obliquely the issue of a free press. Here I pin my hope. The United States has an almost doctrinal devotion to free speech. It has never seemed to me to be cloaked only Democratic blue or Republican red. It seems to be one of the few tenets that all Americans support. Tucker Carlson may fawn over Viktor Orban in Hungary and pronounce his “illiberal democracy” sometimes and “Christian democracy” at others, to be a model that the United States could strive towards. But Orban in Hungary and Erdogan in Turkey are the but the most recent poseurs to democracy. To hold to power and then consolidate it, they have followed the dark path of many who went before - muzzle the press and intimidate opposition. There are competing issues to concern ourselves with, as you listed. But when Trump nibbled around the edges of free speech in refusing to allow certain reporters seating, he smacked hard by almost all the media. When free speech becomes attenuated in America, then democracy here will be on a ventilator. I have faith that this will not go easily and thus maintain my faith in American democracy’s continuance.