Americans Are Living in Trump’s Dream

Americans Are Living in Trump’s Dream

Noah Hawley: “That is what the American experience is beginning to feel like in 2025: not as if we are living in President Donald Trump’s reality, but as if we are living in his dream.”

How Merrick Garland Failed America

The America of 2025 will be unlike any other in American history. It will be marked by further economic growth for the billionaire class, unprecedented public and political corruption within Trump’s White House, and further deterioration of the middle class and a continued push rightward. Amidst the search for a rational answer why this happened, […] The post How Merrick Garland Failed America appeared first on Modern Diplomacy.

The Triumph of the Feels in the Age of Celebrity Governance

Los Angeles, March 24, 2025 Dear Geert, Greetings from the Formerly United States of America. It’s almost impossible to understand what’s going on day to day here, and to explain it to old friends in Europe harder still, but I’ll try. We are not even ten weeks in, but Trump’s resurgent administration has drawn from on-again off-again advisor (and convicted & pardoned felon) Steve Bannon’s experience as a keyboard warrior, and flooded the zone wi…

This review was published in the spring issue of 2025 of Foreign Policy (No. 1/2025). Lauric Henneton offers an analysis of the book by Amy Greene, L-America. What remains of the American dream? (Tallandier, 2024, 256 pages). The debate on the decline of the United States has been raging for a dozen years and Donald Trump's election in 2016 has notably reflected the anger of a part of an electorate that felt betrayed by the two major traditional…