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’
From the outside, it looks as though the United States is having a nervous breakdown. Decisions taken by the White House – at home and abroad – have appeared erratic and irrational.
Yet, what we are actually seeing play out is one of the virtues of the United States – its ability to reinvent itself in fundamental ways.
The United States is an invented nation. Its system of government engineered at a meeting in Philadelphia in 1787. Its citizenry is also invented, based on the vast number of nations from which the population migrated, creating a unique and powerful culture.
