From Public Seminar, why is Trump’s authoritarianism so hard for some to recognize? Jared Bernstein interviews Ben Page and Marty Gilens, authors of Democracy in America? What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It. Democracy has survived a year of Trump — but the fight isn’t over. Trump hasn’t destroyed Obama’s legacy — he’s revealed how impressive it was. The problem with calling Trump a racist: By focusing on the president’s racism — and disregarding his greed — Democrats risk casting the president as a false prophet for white Americans. The president is headed to Davos — how can someone so “America first” attend an event so globally minded?
The Trump evangelicals have lost their gag reflex. Half of Republicans think Trump’s a genius. Peter Aldhous on how Trump’s tweets shaped a year in politics. The past year has provided sustained observations of a phenomenon that might be described as Trump-Induced Time Dilation: the 45th president’s ability to alter temporal perceptions; more specifically, his unnatural knack for making time slow to an excruciating crawl.
