In the last decade, I’ve occasionally written pieces that compared what’s happening in the world — specifically, in the Trump presidency — to something we’re used to seeing on the big screen. Eight months into his first term, I wrote a column entitled “Donald Trump’s Pop-Culture Presidency Enters Its Thriller Phase,” in which I argued that Trump was “acting like an unhinged president out of a movie,” and that his reckless threats against North Korea were designed to get a kind of cinematic rise out of us; it was saber-rattling as showbiz. Given how disastrous and threatening his second term has turned out to be (no mere cinematic posturing
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