I’ve spent most of my professional life criticizing institutions — their failures, their exclusions, their hypocrisies, their quiet (and not so quiet) forms of violence. But like many of Donald Trump’s critics, I now catch myself fantasizing that those very same institutions will ultimately deliver his reckoning.
Think about it: How often have you woken up in the middle of the night to doom-scroll the news, searching for the one article promising that some institution — any institution — is finally putting an end to the relentless disregard for meaningful checks on Trump’s ongoing abuse of power?
