Ill fares the land

The 2024 American election, Part I

EVERY ELECTION DONALD TRUMP has contested summed up a part of his personality. The 2016 result was fitting for a conman and ex-casino boss. He gambled that a diffuse rage running like a coal seam through the thick middle of America could be played for handsome odds. Slip in the quarters, jiggle the dice, pray to the vague gods of the electoral college, …