An American nightmare as it unfurls upon itself and the world

We are currently watching From, a horror TV series about a bunch of Americans trapped in a small town in which the most incredulous and horrific things happen (apparently a some sort of real world manifestations of the inhabitants nightmares). While reading Brian Karem's Salon oped, Trump's stain on America may be permanent, and seeing this sentence:

As Trump’s obvious mental and physical decline heads down a steep hill to an inevitable destination, we have all become prisoners of his dementia

, it dawned on me that From is an allegory of the real America trapped in Trump's nightmare (even if it is not just his but his MAGA nightmares as well). America's worst impulses, conspiracies, fears, inferiority complex, pettiness, provincialism, insularism and long submerged id are rising to the surface without the thinest attempt to rein them in, a transformation that was last seen at this scale a mere century ago.