I have come to think America is a country of serial hysteria. The deification of assassinated MAGA podcast host Charlie Kirk is as over the top as the eight years of liberal self-flagellation about toxic masculinity in the wake of MeToo. Now Trump’s war on DEI has given permission for the rise of ball-scratching knuckle-trailers in the corridors of power, cheering on the deportation excesses of a new ICE age. What chance is there that the next pendulum swing is toward the long lost cultivation of sanity?