Stephan:   How sick is the Trumper world? Here's a pretty good answer. I have never met George Soros, but from 1981 to 1993, when I was involved with Russia, through citizen diplomacy, and a series of joint ventures, I spent about four months a year some years, in Russia. In that time I got to know and worked with a number of Soros' folk. And I will tell you this. George Soros and Donald Kendall CEO of Pepsi Cola, were the only two major American  financial players who became involved with trying to nurture democracy in Russia. And no one exceeded Soros, who poured several hundred million dollars into the effort. I developed incredible respect for the man, and what he had done with his life. That he was eventually overcome by the rise of the oligarchs, and the power takeover by KGB guys, like Putin, is not his fault. It happened, in my view, because most of the U.S. State Department, supported by America's corporate oligarchs, would not put down their cold war prejudices until it was too late to matter.