Donald Trump has transformed the American story

Making America great again was never a promise Donald Trump could deliver on, nor one that he intended to. That said, he has undoubtedly thrust the US back into history ⁠- and not just through his assault, in recent days, on the global economic order. About 50 years ago, the tumults of the late 1960s and early 1970s began giving way to a quietude that would carry us through the end of the cold war. Tested as we may have been by conflict, scandals and crises economic and not, we entered this new century ⁠- and met the uncertainties of…