Impolitic Manifesto

American Samizdat: "in remembrance, of what we meant to make of ourselves"

Over the period of his first presidential campaign and the four years of his presidency, one was rightly preoccupied with Donald Trump, I among millions of others. Increasingly over the four years, though, I was preoccupied not by Trump as much as I was by what he means about us, the United States, as a society, with the national culture that society ca…