The National Sacrificial Bargain: 60 Years in Two Months, History Repeating, and Why We Have to Build Our Own

The General's Briefing · Aug 17, 2026 · 21m

In this episode of The General's Briefing, The Griot gets personal.

Hilerie Lind, PhD candidate, program manager, mother of two boys with disabilities, and founder of The Griot Collective, shares what it actually looks like when national policy becomes personal devastation. Her exemption from the federal return to office mandate was denied. She was told to relocate to Washington DC or resign. With two disabled sons at home and a life built in Atlanta, that was not a choice. That was a forced exit.

And she is not the only one.

Since January 2025, the Trump administration has cut 272,000…