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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Busy
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Nov 07, 2020

We, America, elected Trump. Putin didn't do it, nor the trolls in St. Petersburg with their zillions of busy bots. They may well have plucked certain strings in the national psyche - played us like a dimestore ukulele - but we were keen to be plucked.

Movement
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Nov 07, 2020

Obama was elected on the shoulders of an incipient movement that he allowed to languish once he became president.

American Identity
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Nov 07, 2020

The American identity is mind-bogglingly various.

Hot
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Nov 07, 2020

From the start, Trump's rallies had the air of the tent revival, that same hot thrum of militant exorcism and ecstasy.

Emotion
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Nov 07, 2020

In true demagogic fashion, Trump bypassed the head and spoke directly to the gut, to the biles and bubbling acids of raw emotion.

Humility
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Nov 07, 2020

People rarely grow in humility once they reach the White House.

Collective
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Nov 07, 2020

The collective memory of America is short.

Expectancy
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Nov 07, 2020

The Gilded Age robber barons - the Goulds, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans and Rockefellers - did quite well under laissez-faire. Most of the rest of Americans were still stuck in the ditch, with little to no economic security, life expectancy of roughly 45 years, and horrific infant mortality rates that claimed 300 babies per 1,000 in the cities.

Nov 07, 2020

The national framework of social insurance - social security, unemployment and disability benefits, work programs, and workers' compensation - protected citizens from the kinds of risks that private markets couldn't or wouldn't insure.

New
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Nov 07, 2020

The New Deal saved capitalism - saved it from the big-time capitalists - though many of the big-timers didn't see it that way.

Dream
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Nov 07, 2020

Nobody ever came to America with a starry-eyed dream of working for starvation wages.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

Upward mobility across classes peaked in the U.S. in the late 19th century. Most of the gains of the 20th century were achieved en masse; it wasn't so much a phenomenon of great numbers of people rising from one class to the next as it was standards of living rising sharply for all classes. You didn't have to be exceptional to rise.

Freedom
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Nov 07, 2020

Political rights notwithstanding, 'freedom' rings awfully hollow when you're getting nickel-and-dimed to death in your everyday life.

Opportunity
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Nov 07, 2020

Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient opportunity in the pursuit of happiness, your population will develop its talents, its intellect, its better judgment; that over time its capacity for discernment and self-correction will be enlarged.

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