This is not unprecedented. The Founding Fathers of the United States designed our democracy with this exact scenario in mind and gave us the tools to fight it.

I'm not trying to downplay the seriousness of the threats that currently face us as a nation. I myself feel grave concern regarding the careful planning that went into everything this current administration is doing.

Reading comments on this site tells me many young Americans feel hopeless and that our country's already been stolen from us and it's that helplessness that scares me more than anything else.

The blitzkrieg of executive orders and the rapid dismantling of certain institutions is a deliberate tactic to weave the illusion of a sweeping victory in their favor in order to instill us all with a sense of defeat but it's just that. An illusion. The worst thing we can do now is lose hope.

This is not unprecedented. This is the perennial struggle of people worldwide that value liberty and democracy. This is a battle that's been fought and WON time and time again in this country's history and this time doesn't have to be any different.

I won't claim to have an exact war plan but I know the first and most important step is to cling onto hope no matter what. Remember we outnumber them millions to one and the power lies in our hands as long as we remember so.

That's all I wanted to say, really. We don't bow to tyrants here.

Long live the United States and long live democracy. I love you all.