I want my American dream back

The America that gave me a home.

The America that fulfilled my dreams.

These were the ideals that held Americans together and with all that America stands for and believes in.

America was never and is not a perfect union and every president-from Lincoln to Nixon has transgressed in one form or another.

But then America's strive to live up to its ideals has and will always be as if it were a new endeavor and no country in human history has risen to govern with such a vision and resolve placing the right of the individual at the core of its constitution.

With all of its faults and failings two hundred and forty years of the American experience have made America the beacon for all nations.

Young and old, large and small countries looked at America with awe and admiration.

Never has it occurred though to the multitude of Americans that one man, in four short years would nearly shatter everything that America stood for.

He sullied the country's character and fouled its soul.

He gravely injured its revered institutions and battered its unity as one nation.

He alienated Americans from one another and basked in the polarization and division he gleefully fostered.

He betrayed America's friends and allies and cozied up to its adversaries and foes He tarnished America's exceptionalism and grace and sacrificed its greatness on the altar of his illusions and shame.