It's Donald Trump vs. the U.S., and it's far from clear the U.S. will win

Open this photo in gallery: Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. president Donald Trump, walks to reporters to make a statement at the end of the day of his trial at the Manhattan criminal court, May 2, in New York.Doug Mills/The Associated Press If the American empire should fall, history will record (if there are still historians to record anything) that it was brought down by a single man. And not by some latter-day Simà³n Bolà­var, but by a corpulent, sweating, stone-ignorant grifter from Queens. It will have fallen, in that event, not to some rival power or superior ideology, but…