https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-20-2026

“We know the old order is not coming back,” Carney said. “We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy, but we believe that from the fracture we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just. This is the task of the middle powers, the countries that have the most to lose from a world of fortresses and the most to gain from genuine cooperation.”

Americans as individuals should do what we can to support the middle powers. Within America we work to slow the monsters, and hope that one day we build a stronger democracy with better leaders.