From TPM Reader ES …
I remembered a wistful email exchange we had on election night in 2016 – now we were going to see how resilient American institutions truly are or something to that effect. In retrospect our mistake was to only consider institutions like government and the press, and not the myriad of other small-i institutions that, taken all together, make up society.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1319310