That clarifying, horrifying realisation I described in my intro above…this commentary helped me make (some) sense of it. The author makes the case that Trump hasn’t changed the country, but revealed it. Or, more precisely: «Trump has changed us by revealing how normal, how truly American, he is.» And echoing Kamala Harris’ key message «We’re not going back!», he concludes: «The tragedy is not that this election has taken us back, but that it shows how there are parts of America’s history that we’ve never fully gotten past.»

From Weekly Filet #503, in November 2024.