I am trying to show them our country was always vulnerable, always flawed, but that people fought back. We’ve survived as long as we have due to self-criticism and sacrifice, a willingness to examine our faults and try to fix them. In the past, we survived because good Americans answered the question “Why does nobody stop people from doing bad things?” with laws and actions that prevented people from doing them. If we survive the current era, it will not be due to a savior from above, but to the refusal of ordinary people to accept elite criminal impunity as normal.
