Just read this post on FB and also Rebecca Solnit’s comment (she is another hero of mine). Thanks HCR: you have been a quiet but driving voice of sense and context in the middle of this insane hellscape. I very much hope you are right and those of us who are doing our best to prevent the destruction of ourselves, our families, and our ethical sensibilities are going to prevail. But this is a real nail biter. And we are heavily dependent on people taking that final step, doing the right thing, and voting for freedom for all. Fingers crossed!!
I'll exploit the position of my comment here to underscore this craving we have for straight accounts of events, how tired we are of news contrived to garner attention, sell sensationalized versions of "news". I was a courtroom illustrator for years, witnessed actual trial events then read subsequent media spins -- often sensationalized and distorted intending to grab a viewer's/reader's attention. We can only hope HCR's "letters" serve to uplift all journalism, or inform the broader population of this need of quality reporting.