America, This Is Not Normal, But It Is Exactly What He Promised

Trump’s fantasy economy, racist bile, war-crime denials, and shadow diplomacy expose the true architecture of his regime.

Good morning! Donald Trump began the week insisting that “great economic numbers” had just come out, numbers so great, in fact, that they exist only in the rarefied air between his ears. There were no reports, no releases, no indicators, no data of any kind. In Trump’s mind, perhaps the unemployment rate had personally thanked him for his service, or th…