The takeaway: the biggest change Trump has made is that it is now impossible to pretend that our politics, the way we govern ourselves, is working in any meaningful way any more.

As a country, we have lost our way.

Elections have consequences. But only for the little people.

The rich live in a consequence-free world.

Our core problems - income inequity, environmental destruction, mass shootings, racism, sexism, inner cities abandoned to crumble into “Chiraq” … we aren’t dealing with ANY of that.

Our country is broken. Trump is just the instrument that rubs our noses in it.