Andrew Sullivan joins Shadi and Damir to try to put the last four years of Trump into some kind of perspective. Was Trump stopped or did he succeed? Is he a symptom or a source of decay—or both? Is our republic doomed, or will things just go back to normal? And what's the proper role of a writer and intellectual in troubled times: to analyze or be engaged?
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