Manda Scott

which was true in Venezuela, which was true in Russia.

Germany.

Which was true in many places across the globe, Hungary, et cetera.

And so I think the first thing is, one of the things, it was written during the first Trump administration.

And it almost seems now like a warm fairy tale because they didn't know what was coming in the second term.

And I think what we saw is in the first term, Donald Trump was mostly inept

and a bit kooky.

He really didn't have a strong driving force in terms of what he was trying to accomplish.

This term is radically different.

First of all, he came with the revenge tour.

One has to understand that almost everything that Donald Trump does is motivated by personal grievance.

So I even believe his anti-green energy is mostly because people who hate him

Love green energy.

So one has to understand that grievance is his primary driving force.

But behind him are people who have much more sinister intentions, which is to undermine democracy as we know it and to put power in the hands of a very really a minority of Americans to tell the majority of Americans what to do.

Now, I want to say one hopeful thing.

I recently heard Al Gore talking about, you know, the Trump era.

And he said, I believe we are just past peak Trump.

And I do believe in America, we are just past peak Trump, not in this sense, because what Suzette said is true.

The things they're doing, especially around dissent and hunting people down and immigration and trying to really close off America against the world and all dissent is very dangerous and very frightening.