Steve SchmidtVerified account

All of the heavily armed extremists who assaulted the tenants of our system today support Trump. I want those people to have as little political power in this country as possible because I think they are dangerous and illiberal. This is zero sum. They must be defeated.

This images are beamed around the world and they are greeted with profound sadness, pity, confusion, terror and anger by our friends and glee by our adversaries. They show America in decay; lost and weakening. We are for the first time not admired or feared or respected.

We are pitied. The illiberal forces in America should not be discounted because of what did not happen in our past when economic collapse prefaced the disintegration of weak democracies and the rise of fascism and totalitarianism in other parts of the world. The next chapter

Of history is unfolding now. 20 percent employment, food lines and a dishonest and demagogic President who has sundered the country and stoked a cold civil war between Americans are a bad combination to say the least. Add to it hordes of heavily armed militia nuts drawn