Excellent essay by a Ukrainian journalist who has covered the US for 20 years. Two things stand out:

  1. The collapse of shared reality essential to a functioning society - a point made by Peter Pomerantsev in his books. “There is no longer a shared sense of what is true. I know first-hand that when facts are questioned, rather than verified and used to build common ground, it becomes harder to agree on even the most basic issues – including what the government is for.