If you’ve been watching American cities under siege by federal agents and heard the imperialistic ramblings of our president, you might feel our country is swiftly coming unglued. Well, take comfort. You’re far from alone.

A new poll from The Economist/YouGov found a staggering 71% of Americans feel like the country is “out of control.” More than 60% say the country is on the wrong track, and 58% are dissatisfied with the way democracy is working.

Of those who feel things are out of control, a full 50% identify as conservatives. So this lingering sense of chaos is not simply coming from snowflake liberals like me. President Donald Trump has managed to scare the tuna salad out of most Americans, and we’re only one year into his second four-year reign of terror.

This sense of widespread disorder is, of course, a mirror reflection of the man in charge. There are ways this administration could have gone about its nativist, grift-forward business without rattling the nation. They could have taken a boil-the-frog approach to deportations and bullying allies and stripping away rights, not that a differing approach would have made the end results less........

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