TOM EATON | This is not the US we’ve known ... since WW2 — it’s in fact back to regular programming

It’s not this Trumpian mania that’s the outlier but rather the past 80 years

04 February 2025 - 04:30

For the past two weeks, scores of op-eds and political analyses have insisted that the United States has lost its mind; that it has slipped into a kind of mania that has changed it into something completely alien to itself and unrecognisable to us. Well, yes and no...

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