In part, the tax is being sacrificed to national unity. Long a U.S. partner on trade and defense, Canada feels betrayed by Trump and suspects that America is no longer a reliable partner.

These are indeed minor criticisms in a performance that was full of delights and surprises. Holst's notoriously dense and difficult-to-balance orchestration here sounded lucid and detailed.

The autonomy of universities is no longer recognized. ICE agents are now allowed to barge into places of worship. The nation’s boss man fires the management of a cherished cultural institution.

This is the second installment of my Trump Outrage Watch designed to help me (and you) keep track of his violations of the Constitution, laws, norms and ethics perpetrated at a mind-numbing pace.

If we are applying this to our current politics and culture, a finger is pointed at Trump, Musk, and all the other happy warriors of disruption, self-promotion, and cruelty.

Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are the Careless People who call to mind The Great Gatsby’s Tom and Daisy who “smash up things and creatures and then retreat back to their money and vast carelessness and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”