Rise of McPolitics: Once, all politics was local. Now all politics is national. Can we survive the shift?

 I find this long-game history stuff fascinating but if economics is the "dismal science" then politics is scientific dementia. Two steps forward, one back or one forward, two back, ad infinitum. Like a giant brutally oblivious generational pendulum. Race is a crucible. Class is demagogged. Etc. But POTUS as a Russian espionage asset is BIG and unprecedented. Cold War 2.0. Brinksmanship. Can American democracy survive this attack? Hair on fire. Etc.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/02/the-rise-of-mcpolitics