“The first weeks of the Trump administration have felt at times like the onset of a kind of cold civil war. The spontaneous surge of protest that has marked much of the country’s response to the new president seems fueled not only by his policies, but by the aura of eager cruelty emanating from the White House and a collective intuition that a severe threat to the country, and to the world, is at hand.”
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