I just don’t want the American people to lose sight of their rage, because any hope we have of salvaging this country lies within it.

Without disagreeing with much that you say, I cannot agree with this: Rage is what got us here; Rage is unthinking and shortsighted. Or, put another way…

“Tis a passion that is pleased with and flatters itself. How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defence and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?” — Michel de Montaigne, of anger.

The difference between the American Revolution and the French Revolution was rage. The American founding fathers took measured steps and considered action and what came out of it has lasted these two hundred odd years (some of those years very odd…). The French Revolution was an orgy of rage and, consequently, blood and then Napoleon.

We cannot merely be against something. We must be for something. Rather than rage at the perfidy and, yes, corruption of the Right, we should remember that which is corrupted and put it back together better than it was before. Decide what country we want to have and have it, not who we hate and hate them…