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All transitions are hard. We took over a country beaten down by lies and corruption.

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

Our boundaries have dissolved, and we're going to still do things that are somewhat familiar that people like, but we're also going to stretch out and take chances beyond what we've done before.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.