Our national crisis isn’t just political — it’s psychological. This essay explores how America’s failure of rapprochement has left us unable to repair harm or tolerate difference open.substack.com/pub/tcarrili...
This piece looks at the No Kings protests and the regime’s grotesque response as a mirror of two paths: regression or maturity. It’s a call to stay sane, steady, and human while the culture around us loses its balance.
A reflection on the emotional and moral breakdown of American civic life. How contempt has become the organizing principle of governance and how trauma is reshaping our collective psyche.
In answer to the question, “Do Americans not see how embarrassing this is?” --YES! We see it-- our institutions and our very government have been hijacked by the Trump juggernaut of dark ideologues, opportunists, power seekers, and cultists. We will RESIST.
Authoritarianism thrives when fear and trauma overwhelm us. But history, psychology, and even our founding principles point to another way. Repair, not rage. open.substack.com/pub/tcarrili...
Heather's description of government run by an ideologically-based alternate reality meets criteria for operating under a psychotic process. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
It’s unsettling to see the country we grew up believing in slipping away. Heather Cox Richardson’s new piece lays it out starkly, and I’ve shared some of my own thoughts here: open.substack.com/pub/tcarrili...
Behind the spectacle, a coalition of tech oligarchs, Christian dominionists, cultural reactionaries, and predatory elites is hollowing out democracy. They’re not governing—they’re looting, destabilizing, and erasing.
Not sure where this goes, but I love the sentiment. I, for one, am ready to see the current administration go. Their incompetence,criminality, and irresponsibility is destroying our country.
