A picture is truly worth a thousand words –– or in this case, many thousands.

Last week, as President Donald Trump’s demolition of the East Wing came into full view, America experienced a split-screen reality and dissonance. Alongside images showing the full extent of the White House’s wreckage, headlines blared similar versions of how “Trump’s poll numbers are collapsing.” Stories promised that inflation and the economy will doom him. Republicans, they said, fear a rout in the upcoming midterms.

Much of the coverage was premature and dangerous, making it appear as if nothing in our politics has changed, when of course it has. We are reeling toward a post-democratic America, a fact that Trump’s destruction of the White House blatantly underscores and symbolizes.

The president is remakin

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