Deep Impact

We are in the midst of a clash of civilizations. Not in the Samuel Huntington sense, of East vs. West, or Muslim vs. Christian, but in the basic political philosophical sense of constitutional democracy vs. fascist authoritarianism. November 8th stands as a potential extinction-level event.

Just writing that bit of alarmist prose is an out-of-body experience. Yes, every election since 2000 has been "the most important election of our lifetime," and because of the failure of the process in 2000 we ended up with the Iraq catastrophe which has given us the Islamic State, but this is different.

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