There is no other way to put it: When the executive branch of the current U.S. government is using the tools and resources of the government to attack its own citizens, to launch chemical munitions at reporters and protesters , to zip-tie children and extract them from their apartments in the middle of the night , and to capture those extra-constitutional assaults on video to create social media content for hate clicks , the U.S. government has failed. But what I need you to know is that the