The children.
Now they have a good chance of growing up in a democracy, in an America I recognize. Hopefully, they will never know how close they came to fascism. 45 is a fascist and, under his reign of terror, my country perpetrated fascist acts (babies in cages) and thus truly was, at least partially, fascist itself. However, we weren't swallowed whole into the jaws of that beast. We wrested ourselves out.
Can we ever make right what our government did to those children and their families? No. Honestly, no. Even if we reunite all of the ones still orphaned with their families, in many cases, the damage is done to those children. Many of them don't speak. They were neglected and tortured, like the Romanian babies in orphanages under Ceausescu years ago. There is ZERO difference between Trump's family separation/babies in cages policy and what happened to those children, traumatized and deeply psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually damaged forever, in the Romanian orphanages under that other monster. Only our monster was even worse, as he intentionally kidnapped/separated the babies and children from their parents.
We cannot fix what was done under 45 in our names. All we can do, and now have done, is stop him from doing it to any more children. And stop him from taking us further down the road to fascism in any other way (and he already was, in multiple other ways), too.
And, by so doing, we also save our own children, the children of America. We just saved our country for them. Now they can grow up in a democracy. Now they can grow up looking up to their President and Vice President, and to their parents, for voting for such a world.
I'm so thankful. I haven't slept in four years, thinking of the children. The babies in cages, and all the children of America, today and tomorrow. Last night, I slept.
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