Nepal, Aug. 27 -- In democracies under strain, the most important truths often arrive too late, uttered hesitantly by those who should have spoken earlier. A striking case occurred on 5 July 2025, when Ty Cobb-former White House special counsel-accidentally revealed, in what he thought was a private Facebook comment, that Donald Trump was "worse than anyone in our history."

The post went viral, becoming an insider's indictment few external critics could match. Cobb wrote that Trump "has real contempt for the country, appoints wholly unqualified people to key positions," and even "killed worldwide healthcare efforts monitoring pandemic producing diseases including Ebola."

He added that Trump had "just kicked 12 million people off Medicai...