When Donald J. Trump surpassed 270 electoral votes in November of 2016, a broad consensus held that a crisis was imminent. Some predicted that a protectionist trade policy would undercut growth and trigger a massive recession. Others feared his “fire and fury” rhetoric would provoke an adversary and drag the United States into another war. As we reach the halfway (or quarter-way) point of the Trump administration, neither of these claims have come to fruition. However, this chapter of American history has hardly been one of tranquility and will likely continue in tumult. The republic faces a far more fundamental yet nebulous threat: the extinction of civility.
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Nicholas J. Romanow 