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.