To interrogate the concept of a post-Trump America, we need to ponder the reality that after four years of his serial mendacity, barely concealed racism, straining of international alliances, cozying up to dictators, exacerbating societal divisions, coddling neo-Nazis and white supremacists, putting children in cages, undermining the legitimacy of American elections (including the one in which he prevailed), and generally setting fire to every institution in his purview, nearly seventy million Americans surveyed this unprecedented catastrophe, nodded in approval and said: “I like it.”
Reader, they voted for him in numbers greater than in 2016.
So what does a post-Trump America look like? For starters, it looks like a place that has a lot of people in it that love Donald Trump. This is a problem for so many reasons that it’s hard to know where to begin but let’s start with the lying. In a service to democracy, the Washington Post has over the past four years kept a daily tally of Trump’s lies that now numbers over 22,000.