Mr. Hansen is far more optimistic than I am.
The most disheartening thing of all is the millions of people who have succumbed to the propaganda of the evil "woke" Left--who have allowed themselves to follow their evil preachings like blind, mindless sheep.
The same people would have been supporting Hitler and the Nazis--or laughing at the excesses and madness of Caligula, Tiberius, Nero, Commodus, and Elagabalus--laughing at torture for public amusement in the colosseum--working as guards in the Nazi concentration camps, self-righteous in their mindless acquiescence to the evil propaganda they have accepted.
They are people who have no internal moral compass to guide them--who depend upon the prevailing groupthink for moral guidance--and their number is legion!
That's what's truly frightening.
That's what tempers any optimism with cynicism.