This four‑part series tracks the widening fractures in American democracy — from the tear‑gas clouds of Lafayette Square to the militarized streets of Minnesota, from the White House’s shifting stories to the global stage where threats, bluster, and hypocrisy collide. Each piece exposes a different facet of a presidency defined by chaos: the domestic crackdowns, the manufactured emergencies, the international saber‑rattling, and the feedback loop that ties them all together. What emerges is a portrait of a leader who doesn’t wait for crises — he cultivates them — and a country that must decide whether it will brace the cracks or watch the whole structure give way.