It was a rough night.  Nightmare became reality.  Not only will Donald Trump again become president, but the U.S. Senate will be Republican controlled.  Probably the House too.  Said   Time : Trump campaigned on an authoritarian agenda that would   upend America’s democratic norms , and he is already preparing to deliver on it: mass detention and deportations of migrants; revenge against political enemies via the justice system; deploying the military against his own civilians. How far he chooses to go with the power the public has handed him is a question that will shape the fate of the country. A good look at  Project 2025  provides you the Trump agenda.   Global warming?  While it might not be a hoax anymore, the U.S. will not be cooperative, citing the actual recalcitrance of China and India as reasons.  Trump is also beholden to fossil fuel interests.  The world will suffer. Freedom?   Abortion rights will be minimized and restrictions maximized, leaving much up to the states. LGB

There have been times in the history of the United States when the presidential election determined the future of Humanity.  Which one was the most important? A case has been made for 1940, when then President Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for his third term.   The makers of the Constitution did not include presidential term limits. Some had tried. In 1880, Ulysses Grant ran for a third term and failed. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt also ran, but lost to William Howard Taft. Harry Truman sought a third term in 1952, but dropped out after losing in a primary. In  1940, FDR, a Democrat, ran against Republican Wendell Wilkie , who was an isolationist, and totally against the U.S. entering the war in Europe.  FDR too indicated his opposition to the war, but insiders knew that was just something he said in public,. Hitler and continued recovery from the Great Depression were compelling issues inducing FDR to go for a third term. Wilkie, a relative unknown, had upset Senator Robert Taft and New Yo