I gave the following prompt to an AI image generator:
“A flag for the new nation that has turned from democracy to authoritarian kakistocracy.”
This is what it came up with:
In honor of our new administration, allow me to quote from the historian Heather Cox Richardson at length:
The vision of the U.S. as a hellscape that can only be fixed by purging the government of Democrats does not reflect reality.
The country that President Joe Biden and his Democratic administration will leave behind when they leave office is in the best shape it’s been in since at least 2000.
No U.S. troops are fighting in foreign wars, murders have plummeted, deaths from drug overdoses have dropped sharply, undocumented immigration is below where it was when Trump left office, stocks have just had their best two years since the last century. The economy is growing, real wages are rising, inflation has fallen to close to its normal range, unemployment is at near-historic lows, and energy production is at historic highs. The economy has added more than 700,000 manufacturing jobs among the 16 million total created since 2020.
The chief economist of Moody’s Analytics says, “President Trump is inheriting an economy that is about as good as it ever gets.”
Let’s see what Trump does with all this.