As America lurches from sensation to sensation, a new
foreign and trade policy in a hundred easy tweets, all served up by its
uniquely mercurial supreme commander, serious people are saying “banana
republic” in ever louder voices. True or not, large parts of the ruling cabal
have started to sound bananas, especially President Donald J. Trump and his
personal attorney Rudolph Giuliani. Indeed, the latter’s “Truth isn’t truth”
proclamation pretty much sums up the presidency. But i