The myth of an ending: why even removing Trump from office won’t save American democracy

It feels like this moment in history deserves a definitive ending. It won’t get one.

When the president’s lawyer is getting his office raided by the FBI, and his former national security adviser has pleaded guilty to felonies, and his former campaign chair faces up to 305 years in prison, and both a federal special counsel and a state attorney general are conducting ever-widening criminal probes into the president’s business partners, and rumors abound that the vice president and the ambassador...