Welcome to Trump’s America, The i Paper’s World Insight series presenting the sharpest, deepest thinking on an era-defining shift in history and politics, investigating how Donald Trump and his administration have changed the US and the world – and where we go from here.
• How America’s conspiracy theorists broke the US• The US is becoming impossible to live in• I told Trump over dinner he didn’t have my loyalty – it sealed my fate• This is how the world will look after Trump• Sin City has lost its shine. It shows how far America has fallen• The influencer who turned on Maga – claiming it has a dark secret• Inside America’s most loyal Trump town – where people still think he’s ‘a good man’
It is difficult to assess the prevailing mood in an authoritarian state, where protest lands you in prison. Some officials in the current US administration would love nothing better than to dictate the narrative in the same way the Chinese state can.
Millennials and Gen Zs in China have recently been rebelling in what limited way they can: by rejecting productivity at the workplace. Known as “lying flat”, it is the Chinese version of “quiet quitting”. What started off as a trend around 2021 has persisted five years later, making it sticky enough to call a movement.
