Ben Myselish

And it's frustrating to see because, again, this country could be so great if everything was just operating at full capacity.

But when you have someone in the office of the presidency, like a Donald Trump, who just constantly seeks to sort of undermine what that position at least used to mean or used to try and do, which was, you know, at its best, help this country, help the people, help the world.

Seeing what it's become

is really sad, to just put it simply.

And it's a real travesty that this continues to show itself every single day.

And I'm hopeful, though, that with a community like this, the Midas Mighty, with the community of many pro-democracy voices that exist, that one day we will be able to take back this country in a very positive and uplifting way, Ben.

You know, let me just add before Ben jumps in, Donald Trump likes to think of himself as a builder when the reality is he's a destroyer.

He destroys people's lives.

He destroys people's livelihoods.

He destroys quite literally every single thing he touches.

I mean, we all know the famous Rick Wilson phrase, everything Trump touches dies.

It caught on popularity because it's true.

everything the guy touches dies he's a destroyer and guess what it's easy to destroy it's easy to go around knocking down it's a lot harder to build it's a lot harder to forge bonds between people and countries and actually make deals it's a lot harder to actually pass durable legislation it's a lot harder to actually re-imagine our society in a way where it's going to benefit people

So it's easy for Donald Trump to do all of his destructive activities that he's currently doing.

If and when the Democrat comes into office after this term, it's going to be a whole lot harder to build it up.

And I think we're all going to have to keep that in mind as well, that they will be building a destroyed from a destroyed country.

And that's going to take a lot of work and it's going to take a movement of people pro-democracy amongst both parties to push the country forward to Jordi's point.

after all the destruction that we've faced.

You know, what's fascinating about taking an international perspective on...

the way we cover the news is that you start to see these themes in authoritarians.