Mark Bittman

Most of my friends and I wake up every morning and say, well, what terrible thing happened yesterday?

And, you know, the answer to this is the recovery of power by the majority of people in this country.

And then we can start to make changes that move us in the right direction.

I will say...

You know, if you look at the last 50 or 100 years, a lot of really good things have happened and the pendulum swings back and forth.

I do believe the arc has been towards progress in the last 75 years anyway.

That doesn't mean you're not going to have setbacks because people who benefit from the status quo, people who don't want to see change, don't want to see true equality and fairness for women and people of color and blah, blah, blah.

People who don't want to see that are fighting back and that's the Trump administration and that's what we're seeing right now.

Certainly, as far as I can tell, the only good thing about the Trump administration is that it demonstrates that radical change is possible.

So if radical change is possible in the wrong direction, then radical change must be possible in the right direction.

I know.

There was something this morning.

I was just like, no, say it isn't so.

I was reading some international journalism, which is important, I think important to do, to read what other people are saying about the U.S.

And they're like, well, now that the U.S.

isn't doing this, now that the U.S.

has opted out of that, now that the U.S.

isn't protecting the other thing.

everybody around the world knows that we're completely screwing up.

I mean, it's not a secret.