"The horror with which many citizens regard the Trump presidency is premised, in part, on the notion that its challenges are unprecedented and its morality antithetical to long-standing national values. So 'normalizing' President Trump has become a mortal sin, and 'that's not who we are' a rallying cry for those who view today's anti-democratic and nativist compulsions as aberrations along that long arc toward justice.
"Except this is normal. And it is who we are."
Carlos Lozada at The Washington Post reviews Jon Meacham's The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels and James Fallows and Deborah Fallows's Our Town: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America.
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