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.
• The hidden crisis of overqualified Americans who can’t get jobs• ‘We never changed, Trump did’: Maga’s insurgency against its own leader• The more America spends on healthcare, the sicker it gets
It is difficult to love a country sliding into authoritarianism, crackpot militarism and state-sanctioned xenophobia, to name but three of America’s maladies.
We have more guns than people. We think in bombs.
Thomas Jefferson dreamed of a republic free from the “standing armies” and “exterminating havoc” of Europe. The Founding Father and third president of the United States thought America would lead the world in ways of peace and rational diplomacy. Donald Trump’s America would be his living nightmare.
