David Mamet is a great playwright and a level-headed guy but he got this one wrong. Trump will not save the GAE because liberal democracy contains the seeds of its own destruction. This passage is okay except for the very end. Sure, not today, but sooner than you think, David.
Rome, Greece, Nineveh and Tyre, Babylon, Nazi Germany—all were eventually returned to dust. I saw the irreversible decline of the U.S. and took comfort in the scripture. The Old Testament is a record of decline of those civilizations which fall away from God; and promises that a return to his precepts will restore his grace. We know that one day America, as all things, will go one with Nineveh and Tyre. But not today.
And, by the way, coffee is for closers only.