Your words are reassuring. It feels good to see someone who thinks. We all have to be vigilant. Today, Sen McCain said: Dictators 'get started by suppressing free press.'

Sen. John McCain slammed President Donald Trump's attacks on the media this week by noting dictators "get started by suppressing free press."

It was a startling observation from a sitting member of Congress against the President of the United States, especially considering McCain is a member of Trump's party.

But he continued [talking to the press], "If you want to preserve -- I'm very serious now -- if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press," McCain said in the interview. "And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started."

There's a video of Fareed Zakaria in that article where he says that last fall he was angry at McCain for not rebutting trump about many topics (including insulting McCain as prisoner of war in Vietnam when trump said that he does not like soldiers who get captured). But Fareed adds that he now sees the strategy of McCain which was not to go too far from trump BECAUSE McCain needed the trump voters of AZ in order to be re-elected. And McCain needed to be re-elected in order to have a deciding voice in the Senate (an ex senator is nothing, Fareed said), so McCain waited patiently (probably like he did in his jail cell in Vietnam). And now he can have a voice: He is one of 3 or 4 Republican senators who hold the balance of power in the Senate: These are the only people in Congress who can control trump. We need you John.

And we need you Caring.