Take Heart, America, We're Going to Outlive Him.

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Jun 8, 2026 · 4m

Hey, America.

I get it: this feels like it’s never going to end, like this oppressive darkness will never lift, like the disorienting chaos of these days is now our default setting.

This is understandable.

For the last decade, we’ve been living in dog years, friends; pummeled by a century’s worth of Constitutional crises, systemic failures, war crimes, and human moral collapses.

The atrocities have accumulated, the legislative losses have piled up, and perhaps, most of all, the list of people we loved and once respected who’ve abandoned compassion and reason has grown beyond what we can…