MILAN, ITALY - JANUARY 13: Gigi Hadid walks the runway at the Prada fashion show during Milan Menswear Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2019/20 on January 13, 2019 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)Victor VIRGILE “Democracy dies in darkness.” There’s truth to that, but the metaphor reveals a key misunderstanding about how Trump operates. He isn’t Nixon, who operated in darkness until his crimes were revealed and he resigned. Trump has his own lights, his own cameras, and an entire crew producing his version of reality. If you shine a flashlight at someone who’s already under a glaring spotlight like that, you might not be able to see anything new. Right, right. I think K-pop when it comes here as an export. [But] it's not being played on the radio, for instance. It's still kind of a niche, in America, at least. But in Korea, that's their pop music, that's theirJustin Bieber I came to see the Senate as skewed to help conservative senators. The first wave of Black Lives Matter protests started going on, and the Ferguson police officer [who killed Michael Brown] was acquitted. I happened to walk into a protest and a woman was carrying a sign saying “The system isn’t broken, it’s fixed.” I was thinking about what I’d been reading, and it seemed to refer to this higher political system as well — the reason the Occupy Movement couldn’t get anywhere, or Bernie Sanders couldn’t get much steam or was suppressed by the Democratic Party itself. The system was working as it was supposed to. If that was the case and if we wanted to do something about, say, climate change, maybe the Northeast could do something, or the West Coast could do something. Maybe the union is a problem. Maybe it’sthe