illumen8

The Guardian provides exactly what Americans need to help take our blinders off. While traveling over the years throughout Europe and Mexico, I've been able to see first hand from a perspective outside the US what the term 'ugly American' really means. Trump embodies that humiliating, but not inaccurate summation. By removing the rock under which far right racist and religious extremists hid, he's brought our dark underbelly into the light. That truth has brought heartbreak and shame to progressives not only during this Trump autocracy, but for a lifetime. We love our country, and are not Tr