Notes / Political and Geostrategic Observatory of the United States
13 February 2026
The Trump era has forever changed the US
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Lincoln Mitchell
Political analyst, essayist, lecturer at Columbia University
As the Trump regime continues to sink into fascism and corruption, it is increasingly evident
that the US will be forever changed by this era. If the US emerges from the Trump years as a
functioning and cohesive, just in the legal sense, country, something that cannot be easily
assumed, it will look very different than it did before Trump announced his candidacy in June
of 2015 and almost immediately became the dominant figure in American political life.