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How Donald Trump made 2025 bad for every American.

The rolling tide of misery and chaos imposed on us by the crapulous ubiquity of Donald Trump in our lives, politics, culture, and society always has one weird trick that his fans, allies, enablers, business partners, wives, and mistresses mutter like an incantation: “This time, it’s going to be better.”

In 2025, we put that myth to bed, once and for all. It was, to tweak the title of a great Christopher Koch novel (and subsequent movie) that I love, The Year of Failing Dangerously. My catalog of this year’s failings is, necessarily, incomplete. For that, I apologize, but this is a Substack post, and not a Dostoevsky novel. There are sins and excesses here that I can’t catalog in one piece.

We were famously promised a second coming if Donald Trump was returned to power. A Trumpian “golden age” was an article of faith for his supporters and the vast media apparatus devoted to affirming even the most ludicrous claims to waft from his constantly flapping lie hole.

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Instead, we got in the first year of Trump’s second term what anyone with more intellectual horsepower than the average planaria could have easily predicted: failure, destruction, chaos, misery, and humiliation, served daily, like prison cafeteria loaf, with a side of televised cruelty and fascist spectacle. We got Project 2025 goons and DOGE bros committing not reform but arson.

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