A president that would do anything in his power to prevent these things from happening would be Heroic, not Horrific.
If we've reached a time for heroes to be politicians and politicians to be heroes, then we're living in interesting times indeed.
What it means, is that the US and possibly the world economic/geopolitical body as a whole is in a systemic crisis. Heroes can either change the course of the world, or they can be a temporary stopgap. Worse, they can be a throwback to old patterns of thought that no longer work.
If we've reached a time for heroes to be politicians and politicians to be heroes, then we're living in interesting times indeed.
What it means, is that the US and possibly the world economic/geopolitical body as a whole is in a systemic crisis. Heroes can either change the course of the world, or they can be a temporary stopgap. Worse, they can be a throwback to old patterns of thought that no longer work.
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