A New Era of Border Theater

It only took 30 years and the help of the Democratic Party to get here.

A stack of Kuwait Times newspapers shows the publication's front page at a newsstand in Kuwait City on January 21, 2025, with a picture from the inauguration ceremony of Donald Trump. (Photo credit: Yasser al-Zayatt via Getty Images)

For several days, I’ve been mulling over how to write about Trump’s inauguration. I don’t want to be blindsided by his fi…