We knew from the moment Donald Trump won that we were destined for a national crisis like this one.
It’s what you get when you elect someone who specializes in division, denigration, diminishment and debasement. He’s incapable of summoning the better angels of our nature.
He makes everything worse because he personifies our despair — whether it’s despair over what we’ve become as a nation, or despair over the loss of hope that we can do better.