The wild thing is, Trump's administration will pass, if it passes, and we won't really talk about it, we won't self-reflect as a nation.
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We won't stop and go "woah. Wtf just happened? We gotta change something." The NYT will run four of those pieces then life will continue.
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And no one will really reflect or change, because who has time? The coalitions built during this time will continue to matter.
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But there will be no reckoning. There will be no restoration of faith. There will be no "national conversation." How could there be?
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And so America will never consciously, intentionally, collectively change. It will just keep changing as it moves. We will never choose.
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What if adolescent America achieved self-consciousness? How painful, mortifying would that be for such a nation? What could it then achieve?
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