"'It can go on about itself all it likes, but after all this is over, we will always know that under certain pressures, it caved in easily. People say that, after Trump, America can go back to being itself – but no, there is no going back.'

The problem, he says, isn’t just political, but goes to the heart of the country’s spiritual delusions about itself."

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“'The issue is moral. America has a stain on its soul. It often thinks about itself in religious terms, as a shining city on a hill. Well, it’s a shining city some way down the hill now, and it has to get on with re-forming itself as a normal country, rather than as a beacon built on a set of ideals – because those ideals have turned out to be pretty tawdry.'”

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