It appears that Americans required a second and even more brutal lesson than the one delivered during Donald Trump’s first term: Democracy does not come with guarantees, and requires not just the consent of the governed but also their active participation. Its so-called institutions, among them our nation’s increasingly threadbare 18th-century Constitution, are visibly crumbling, as if eaten away from within by an army of persistent termites.

Trump sat next to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the latter’s English country retreat on Thursday and delivered a veritable torrent of half-truths, misstatements, fantasies and flat-out lies: Inflation had been vanquished, fuel prices were down, the U.S. economy was booming, he had personally resolved seven (!) international conflicts, althou

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