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The U.S. has always been a work in progress, but since the Revolution, we have always believed in equality. Now Trump makes us doubt any notion of shared values.
Russell Shorto is the best-selling author of The Island at the Center of the World and, most recently, Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom, a History of the American Revolution. He is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine.
The U.S. has always been a work in progress, but since the Revolution, we have always believed in equality. Now Trump makes us doubt any notion of shared values.
Russell Shorto examines the dawning of one of the darkest periods in the history of the Dutch metropole.