On a fundamental level, politics is a system of relationships and power. Donald Trump, who is America’s first elected autocrat, promised to disrupt and smash those relationships and norms in service to his revolutionary project to “Make America Great Again.”
Domestically, Trump has launched a shock and awe campaign against America’s democracy, its institutions, the Constitution and the rule of law. The relationships, norms, and consensus that has structured American politics and society since the 1940s and the New Deal through the 1960s and the Great Society and the civil rights movement to the Age of Trump are being tested and broken.
