When Congress Walks Away

How the 119th Congress abandoned its job—and the people who need it most

Donald Trump is the great attention-suck of our times. His outsized, floridly transgressive personality mesmerizes the media, the political world, the country itself. How often do you wish you could simply ignore him, or forget about him?

But it seems that’s impossible. From an early age, Trump made himself—using the raw materials of a deeply broken psy…