This Is Trump's America. There's Only One Winner Here.⁠↗

No moment could better capture the fundamental irony of Trump’s second term: a populist revolution that begins with the people outside pressing their faces against the glass.

We’re not watching the next chapter of American democracy—we’re watching its mutation into something else entirely—a system where incompetence becomes a feature, not a bug, where chaos serves power, and never threatens it, and where the worst people are given the most important jobs precisely because they’ll do them badly.