“The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together, and it is only the last push, in which one or the other takes the lead.
Thomas Paine
The Crisis, No. IV
[An engraving of the monument to Paine in New Rochelle, NY, the first in the world. The engraving above depicts the monument as it looked shortly after it was erected in 1839 under the aegis of Paine biographer, publisher, educator, and reformer Gilbert Vale (1789 - 1866) and his journal, The Beacon (NY).]
Between a bloodthirsty, right-wing leaning media, and historic, two-party (only one in some states like Idaho now) electoral system, new leaders, and even old ones like Biden,are easily taken down.
That was certainly the case with development of the covid vaccines, what is in the wings to save the US?