The way we live now

Click on this link and scroll through the 60 or so posts in the last 12 hours. [Warning: it goes to Donald Trump’s Truth Social account, so if you don’t want to give that any clicks use one of the workarounds that the kids are always using.] I won’t bother flagging any particular post, since it’s just a tsunami of paranoid insanity.
Like Aaron Rodgers, I’ve done My Own Research, and discovered that while there’s extensive coverage of this situation in the non-U.S. media, there is practically none in the major American outlets.
In some ways the key to the Trump era is that Donald Trump has lived a largely consequence-free existence, and he’s gradually discovered that all of our various “guardrails” don’t actually apply to him, at all. Trump v. United States is merely the Supreme Court’s formalization of this historical trajectory in jurisprudential terms.
. . . CL Minou references this tweet, which does capture this particular dynamic perfectly:
Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast
I think the disconnect between Atlantic elites is that Americans think Donald Trump is a kid getting to drive a monster truck for Make A Wish and Europeans and Canadians think Donald Trump is the president of the United States.
