This whole post is worth a read! A chain of excerpts that gives you the through line (but read the whole damn thing!): "It is intermission in the Trump Show. Full-time programming will resume in January. The Trump Show is the only show Americans watch together, but we can never change the channel...I am writing about intermission because I am still getting my bearings. The second Trump administration will proceed much like the first, in the sense that superficial changes will happen very fast while the broader crisis of corruption — a transnational crisis — will quietly deepen and become more dangerous...The American psyche is worn from paying so much attention and learning so little truth in return...One option is to stop watching. I recommend that when it comes to the minutiae of the Trump administration, but not when it comes to the big picture. Because the big picture is you — not him, but you. Not the officials and oligarchs, but you — your family, your community, your country. This is not a show, this is not a game. This is your goddamn country...You don’t have to love it, and you don’t have to leave it — but do not ever forget it is yours." #uspoli sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i…