Michael Anton says there is no gentle way to put this—that America as you’ve known it is in danger of collapse.
“But,” you may be thinking, “don’t I hear this kind of rhetoric every presidential campaign season?” You could be forgiven for dismissing it as “more of the same.”
That would be a mistake. This is an election like no other. To treat it otherwise would be a grievous and perhaps irreparable misstep. In case any of our readers are still uncertain, we thought we’d let Anton explain, in his own words, just what The Stakes are. https://americanmind.org/post/what-are-the-stakes/