With the growing onslaught of insanity these days, it’s nearly impossible to know where to begin. And not only is the breadth beyond hope to fully capture, I’d add little in the process in any event, so I’ll resort instead to quoting Ezra Klein from one of his podcast episodes in early April following Trump’s Truth Social post threatening that ‘a whole civilization will die tonight.’

I am not sure that what Trump said was that far off. I am worried a civilization died that night — our civilization: in the sense that America is a civilized nation, a nation that