In my almost 80 years of life, yesterday takes the cake, I think.

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14. It was truly a day of infamy

The United States of America will continue under the same name but may not persevere with a government "of the people, by the people and for the people". I consider the Trump era to be the culmination of gradual decline dating back to 1981 when Reagan fired the striking Air Traffic Controllers. This second election of Trump is monumentally unfortunate for all but a small handful of the American People.

IMO, the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima is not really in the same category. It was the beginning of an era of existential threat to all Humankind that continues to this day. Unlike the climate crisis, there is nothing gradual about a nuclear conflagration. The fact that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are, so far, the only instances when nuclear weapons were actually used on people is testimony to their unparalleled potential for harm.