Donald Trump’s brand of politics is called “ultra-nationalism” by his chroniclers, “America First” by his supporters, and, by his more emotionally prone critics, “basically Hiroshima-plus-Nagasaki-plus-the-Holocaust-plus-the-bubonic-plague-plus-the-genocide-of-the-American-Indians-plus-the-great-leap-forward-plus-the-death-of-everything-good-plus-the-news-that-your-Grandma-just-died” all happening to American democracy at once. I call the president’s politics “quotidian insurgency”, or the daily revolutionary effort to undermine the establishment decision makers, the old structures by which […]