An incoming leader’s onslaught of depredations

Poor old democracy, it really is in a sorry state. It would be easy to put all the blame on the vandals and tyrants presently trashing the White House, but this has been years in the making. It begins with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and the spirit of Gordon Gekko, and it rolls on all the way to Facebook and the anti-vaxxers, with nothing more t…