A few days ago, a woman in New Hampshire named Sarah Chamberlain posted a letter on Medium. It was titled “Open Letter From an American Coward.” In it, she lays out the situation before us as Americans who love liberty. She is dead on, and her words underline just how terrifying a position we are in. Thomas Paine wrote that “These are the times that try men’s souls,” and while his words were written to a battle-worn, freezing, hungry Continental Army, they may just as well have been written to us…to you. And to me.