Not just the United States.

In the six-plus years since, every mental health professional I have come across has told me that my essay had it exactly right. I think every word of it has been proven right many times over.

Even today, he's still only going to get worse.

Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

After he is gone, I want to see these plaques installed in the Smithsonian, accompanied by intelligent critical curatorial commentary-- perhaps peppered with a healthy dose of ridicule--to help museum vistors contextualize this aberrant and abhorrent period in American history.