From your old lefty's point of view, America's shining moment, it's contribution to the international order over the last eight years, will get us through---you, me, Ken, James, keith and jim, all the rest. (And a happy new year!) For all the trumpin' and thumpin' the only solution to global problems is restoration of the Obama system. If the world is to return to "normal," despite wide ideological and economic differences, it will come from the way Americans were represented since 2008: leading internationally to remove the nuclear threat, on climate, major crackdowns on offshore tax evasions, major agreements to regulate banking and investment, withdrawing from hopeless foreign entanglements, erasing remnants of the pariah state. Those patterns are still in place along with the American majority that put them in. I'd buy a ticket to see them again.
