It is clear now, one-year into the second coming of Donald Trump, that the normative international order in place since World War II has been breached. Trump recently pronounced that he doesn’t need to follow international law because all that counts is his “own morality.”1 The context was his shakedown of Venezuela to grab its oil. The same day saw him shamelessly lying about the murder by ICE of a woman in Minnesota, even though anyone with the inclination to open their eyes could plainly see the lie in a widely distributed video. Trump’s paean to morality notwithstanding, the norms of individual behaviour associated with the well-tempered enlightenment subject, not to mention the bourgeois subject of capitalism’s erstwhile Protestant ethic with its putative embrace of moderation, have similarly eroded. This was clear as early as Trump’s first run for the White House, when he bragged about being entitled to “grab pussy” at will or even randomly shoot someone on Fifth Avenue...