The conventional wisdom is that Trump has ‘coarsened’ and ‘debased’ US politics, which is a little too pearl-clutching for my taste. If the US has a future at all, it’s going to be based on ubiquitous surveillance: everyone’s most ridiculous and compromising moments will be on-demand, with just enough leaking to keep everyone on their toes. That’ll be impossibly horrifying and unfathomably unfair, but as time goes by the result will be a new kind of person who’s completely immune to exposure or blackmail. And America’s strategic competitors, complacent in their addiction to privacy, will be at a catastrophic disadvantage.