Art: Peter Saul; "Cute Little Shark," 2019. Courtesy the artist and Venus Over Manhattan, New York. In his address to the Democratic National Convention in August, Barack Obama warned that the Trump administration "has shown it will tear our democracy down if that's what it takes to win." Kamala Harris began her first speech as vice-president-elect by saying "America's democracy is not guaranteed." Some may have dismissed this as mere hyperventilated campaign rhetoric. But in the days that followed the election, Trump fulfilled the stark prophecies. He has seized whatever powers he still has in his grasp to rattle the system and to take vengeance against his successor by leaving him with a ruin. Trump has attempted to retain power much as he wielded it throughout his term: with a comic ineptitude of his means that made it difficult to absorb the seriousness of his ends. If you had predicted four years ago that Trump would finish his term by proposing to cancel the election and reinstall himself in a second term, you'd have been brushed off as a hysteric. And yet here he is attempting to do just that and recruiting Republican allies to his mad scheme. The certainty… Read full this story
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