Alan Elrod: We are doing politics with version of America in our heads that doesn’t really exist—or, at lest, not fully. Trump’s portrayal of American cities as war zones is, of course, not based in reality. But neither is the persistent belief among many we have not already hurtled into authoritarianism.

We are doing politics with version of America in our heads that doesn’t really exist—or, at lest, not fully. Trump’s portrayal of American cities as war zones is, of course, not based in reality. But neither is the persistent belief among many we have not already hurtled into authoritarianism.