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One group of people who will need to adapt to a change in circumstances over the next few weeks and months ahead is the diminished Republican party, which ultimately lost control of the presidency and the Senate in November’s election, despite making gains in the house of Representatives.
Steve Peoples for Associated Press reports that it is likely to be an era of diminished power, deep uncertainty and internal feuding.
Psychologist and author Andrew Solomon writes for us this morning, musing that Trump didn’t just change America, he changed Andrew Solomon:
It’s easy and dull to catalogue the president’s particular lies and transgressions. What is both harder and more important is to assess a cumulative effect that he has lacked the perspicacity to discern himself. In seeking to undermine stories in the mainstream media case by case, he convinced many Americans that truth itself was conditional. Americans have always been divided about troubling events, but until Trump, there was at least broad agreement about what those events were. Arguing with Trump’s supporters, one is presented with narratives that bear as much relationship to what happened as creationism does to the theory of evolution.
Related: Goodbye, Donald Trump. You changed America. You also changed me | Andrew Solomon
Read the original article at The Guardian