Ever since Barack Obama left office in 2017, being American has felt a bit like living inside of a pinball machine: We’ve been flying between extremes, pinging off edges, rolling toward what feels like end times and then shooting back into the game. Stroll down memory lane with me: The promise of the first woman president crashed into the shock of reactionary Trumpism, which itself was met with defiant resistance—Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, the Women’s March—each of which was in turn the