Commentary The only way to make any sense of the fierce crosscurrents sweeping over American political life now is to watch two trends that are only slightly connected. First is the continuing great national sense of relief that the chaos and pandemonium of the Trump era is over. There are not nightly cascades of provocative and frequently outrageous tweets and the days are not filled with confrontations in which the president’s enemies assault him like picadors, and he rises to every challenge like a compulsive single combat warrior. To Trump’s scores of millions of admirers, he was merely returning fire from those who attacked him unfairly. To Trump’s enemies, his opponents were only doing their duty to assist in retarding the progress and hastening the departure of the Great Ogre. To the independent voters, a beleaguered minority in the Trump era, it was Trump’s America, regardless of blame, and to …