Though many will find consolation in the principles of the founders or in the resilience of the American story, the fact remains that we stand on a knife’s edge. Donald Trump’s presidency unleashed forces howling beneath our politics since the tumult of the 1960s. For decades, politicians stoked and exploited white resentment. Corporations consolidated their hold on government and cut American workers off at the knees. Ideas of the public good were reduced to an unrelenting pursuit of self-interest.
