Our inability to really grasp the phenomenon of Donald Trump confronts us as the ongoing threat to our nation’s mental well-being.
It is not just that Trump, in his unacknowledged electoral defeat, still dominates the Republican Party—or that, after all this, a Trump comeback cannot be ruled out. It is that offering up the very facts that in some halcyon time might have disqualified Trump from any office of trust, as they say, now has the perverse effect of solidifying his support.
