But that would be shortsighted and put far too much blame on one consequential but ultimately limited individual rather than where it should squarely rest, on all of us. Just as Trump is a symptom not the cause of the rot of the Republican Party, the United States of America at 250, is a symptom of the sins that started accumulated before our founding, and that we have consistently failed to address. https://newsletter.mattdragon.com/archive/things-im-reading-2026-07-22/