Trump destroys the West

Our dismal hopes expire

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At a moment like ours, just as the Second World War was about to begin, W.H. Auden was in New York and wrote how

I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade

It’s too early to head for a dive, although I wish I could. But it’s not too early to despair a…