Before Trump, Americans said their governance had failed them, money ruled in Washington, there were no longer tribunes advocating in their interests. Dysfunction reigned, of crises meeting federal payrolls, paying the military, racial violence, a continuum of massacres, despairing generations, inequality widening, are a legacy of social scars evolved from a loss of community, publics at each others' throats, exacerbated by Trump's campaign of demeaning, hatred and bigotry.