Richard Primus (Michigan): The Republic in Long-Term Perspective. America’s heart of darkness: Trump’s presidency is part of a decades-long erosion of trust in government. Martin Wolf on how we lost America to greed and envy: The US president is hostile to the core values the country used to stand for. In the land of willful amnesia: Americans are constantly being asked — and constantly being primed — to forget. Welcome to the post-parody age: Parody is impossible with an administration this cartoonish. The world burns — Sarah Sanders says this is fine. Trump’s most ardent defenders are a bunch of clowns. Alexandra Petri on the disgusting “normal” under Trump. What if the Trump era represents the new normal? Of course this is who we are — but who do we want to be? Lie back and take it, America. It’s all a game in Trump’s America.
