A year ago this week, Americans turned out to vote in “the most consequential election of our lifetimes,” as they say time after time after time. Only this time, it was all too true.

I voted, as I wrote at the time, for compassion over fear, empathy over ignorance, humanity over mockery, hope over nihilism, progress over regress and decency over vulgarity.

This month, the winning candidate posted an AI generated video of himself flying a plane that dropped great gobs of feces on the heads of his own citizens.

So yeah, my side lost, maybe you’ve heard.

No return

But the unmaking of America proceeding apace ever since seems to remain more of a threat in the national consciousness than a quotidian reality. Somehow, through the various distortion portals across our fractured mediascape, a

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