“America is over.”
That, with some variation, is the message I’ve been getting from friends and colleagues ever since last week’s Democratic primaries elevated a host of radicals to prominence. In WhatsApp groups and text messages and long, doleful emails, intelligent, soulful people wrote to declare that the experiment that had begun on these shores 250 years ago was now at an end. America, they lament, is obviously on its way to becoming another Spain, Poland, Ukraine—just “another shithole country where Jews used to live.”
