Since the emergence of Donald Trump in 2015 as the dominating figure of national life, the United States has been in the midst of a continuing political crisis without a predictable exit.  Trump is not dominant, at least not yet.  No collective force currently exercises hegemonic power.  From the perspective of politics as statecraft, the country is drifting, pending the emergence of a governing coalition able to combine power and persuasion to impose its will upon the nation as a whole.  From a perspective of politics as spectacle, the country has been in an era of political wrestling matches much Read more