This is a MUST READ. ThinkProgress issues a warning to all of us.

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3. This was heartbreaking to read and you are correct -- it's a MUST READ.

All of which is a long way of saying that the tools of American liberalism, and the Democratic Party that relies on these tools, are poorly suited to the particular threat Donald Trump presents to democracy — and that the Republican Party frankly began to present almost immediately after Barack Obama took office. By propping up Trump’s constitutional legitimacy despite his democratic illegitimacy, Clinton and Obama appealed to the rule of law. But what happens when the rule of law is turned against itself?

What happens when the president may owe his victory to a longstanding Republican campaign to undermine the sanctity of our democracy? And what happens if that president perfects that campaign?

The biggest danger of a Trump presidency and a Republican Congress isn’t that they may enact terrible policies. It is that they might entrench their own rule in ways that cannot be easily undone.

I am still in such a state of disbelief that it's hard to read and comprehend that we are here. We are really here. It's not a drill, It's not Orwell or Sinclair Lewis -- this is our reality.

All the work we did to try to prevent this from happening -- the people we needed to understand didn't listen.

My heart is broken, my spirit is wounded but I won't let either of them wither away. Complacency isn't an option.

Thank you Peggy.