“I hope to God you are right, that we are much safer, but I will say if you go back to the Japanese statements before this, they were just like yours--we are so safe, we are so safe.”
We have to have the people who were Republicans before really just drop that label and either become Democrats, if they can’t get themselves to do that, to become nonpartisan, independent voters.
This is a sad moment, we always had two parties, one was to the right of center, one was to the left of center, and we never had a party, so extreme and so willing to become the party of grievance and anger and division.