The Year the Guardrails Were Removed (🇺🇸 US-UK🇬🇧 Edition)

In this capstone essay, I step back from the daily churn of outrage to examine what Trump’s return has clarified rather than obscured. This is not a catalog of scandals or a prediction exercise; it is an argument about power, normalization, and the quiet civic bargains Americans are being asked to accept. The danger is no longer shock. It is familiarity—and what we choose to do now that the pattern is unmistakable.~Dunneagin Get full access to ~ Civics Unhinged: Dispatches From Trumpistan ~ at dunneagin.substack.com/subscribe