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For Lepore, the Constitution is a blueprint of a cathedral, one that has morphed since its inception, rather like New York’s unfinished St. John the Divine with its mélange of architectural styles.

These wave-cut cliffs, a brittle mélange of ancient claystone and shale, have been eroding on average about a foot a year, exacerbated since the 1980s by a hardened shoreline, intensifying El Niños and, now, sea level rise.

There is actually no making America “great again,” only an inarticulate and unfulfillable promise to make America into something new, as a cartoon melange of memes and themes: white supremacist but not exclusively white; intensely masculine but with occasional fembot girlbosses; fully employed with F-250 pickups and cruise-ship vacations for all, no income taxes and low-cost health care somehow paid for by … but it’s no good getting too granular.

There’s no making America “great again,” only an inarticulate and unfulfillable promise to make America into something new, as a cartoon melange of memes and themes: white supremacist but not exclusively white; intensely masculine but with occasional fembot girlbosses.

Thanks to a melange of practical effects, matte paintings, miniatures, models and costly, groundbreaking special effects, Donner achieved a superhero movie that looks unlike anything made in the decades since.