The news, met with disbelief from patrons and staff, followed a closely watched visit by the US secretary of homeland security, Kristi Noem, in March. Touring the library, Noem said “USA number one!” and then hopped over the black tape separating the two countries and said “51st state” when she landed in Canada. She repeated the joke – echoing Donald Trump’s recent fixation on annexing Canada – three times.

Most people get older but there’s never a magic moment they become “adults.” Many times people retain good qualities of childhood as they get older - curiosity, desire to play with others, a desire to learn. And many times they retain bad qualities of childhood - selfishness, lack of self-awareness, impulsiveness, impatience, tantrums.

This administration, led by Trump as the exemplar, is just a collection of people who got older but never stopped being children, in the worst ways. They have no self-awareness and just do whatever they feel like. Then they cloak it in the language of “adults,” lack the curiosity to investigate if they’re right, and throw a tantrum if someone tries to stop them.

I hope there is someone keeping track of this firehose of sewage so we know what needs to get cleaned up in the less-dystopian future (if we’re lucky enough to have one). Do we start a Project 2029(?), to return the country to sanity?

Again, I’m not sure we’ll ever have the opportunity because the horizon is pretty dark. But it’s overwhelming just trying to keep track of how many of the country’s worst people are implementing their dream agendas with no oversight or limitation whatsoever.