Fascism is now in the algorithms, the neural pathways, the social interactions. How did we fail to see all this? “We wanted to see Trump in terms of his absences, so that our way of seeing the world would go unchallenged,” Timothy Snyder writes.

Whenever political statements are made, whether about bike lanes in Toronto, or Trump annexing ally countries, crowds of people tell us “it’s a distraction”.

Don’t buy it. Politicians are capable of changing the narrative—and they are also capable of moving toward multiple goals simultaneously.