The Grievance Presidency

Trump’s Nobel obsession, the GOP’s cult, and the last chance to stop a democratic collapse

Over the past few days, the question has stopped being what is Trump doing now? and become why is anyone still pretending this is normal?

The immediate provocation is absurd enough to sound like parody: the President of the United States sending what amounts to a grievance-soaked text message to Norway, furious that he did not receive a Nobel Peace Prize…