I appreciate all the effort you have put in writing this Substack, but I will not be renewing my gift subscription. This is because I think you are among many other prominent Substackers who are grasping at straws to avoid admitting just how bad things are. I well understand that it is human nature to avoid despair and not admit that short of patriots among those who have the actual weapons, by this I mean guns, tanks, and fighter jets, we have entered a police state. I wrote about this today in "Think DOGE is bad, WOGE will be way worse.

Trump is ready to launch his Weaponized Office of Government Extremism. Can he do this?" Here's the link. halbrown.substack.com/p…