To suggest September 10, 2025 as the moment we should finally “sense a disturbance in the Force” is telling. To recognize the fracture in our civil society only now, after the tragic killing of Minnesota public servants and countless acts of violence toward Jewish citizens and school children, demonstrates the problem. The warning signs started long ago and treating them as isolated instead of systemic has allowed them to deepen.
The disturbance should have been evident when a sitting president incited an insurrection against the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. That was not an ambiguous episode but rather a violent attempt to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. The fact that this individual was subsequently reelected and then pardoned those who engaged in that very violence, underscores how tolerance for anti-democratic behavior has grown. These were the moments that shook our foundations of stability…
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