For a nation so accustomed to congratulating itself as exceptional, it is bitter poetic justice for we as Americans to officially join the ranks of ridiculed autocracies ruled by cartoon dictators.
We now fit all the criteria: An elite whose exponentially absurd distribution of wealth makes a joke of the pretense of a civilized economy? Check. National media that avoid the actual issues of raw autocracy while dithering over distractive questions such as optics and intent? Check. A plurality electorate sufficiently brutalized to settle for abusing designated others as an acceptable form of solace? Check.
The United States of America has arrived. Welcome.
