“I’ve pretty much given up on this country,” a friend texted me last week. The past several months—and it has, unbelievably, been only that long—have played out like the climax of a Roland Emmerich movie, as one American institution after another has crumbled in the face of a previously unimaginable assault. The nation’s top universities and its most powerful law firms, its largest companies and most venerable media giants, have succumbed to the president’s arm-twisting with little more than a whimper—or, in some cases, prostrated themselves without even needing to be asked. Government agencies have been snuffed out overnight, masked law-enforcement officers roam the streets, and the welfare state has been slashed to free up money for vast new detention centers. The question can feel les

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