“Welcome to the hypernormalization club,” Harfoush said in a response video. “I’m so sorry that you’re here.”

The first is people seeing that governing systems and institutions are broken. And the second is that, for reasons including a lack of effective leadership and an inability to imagine how to disrupt the status quo, people carry on with their lives as normal despite systemic dysfunction – give or take a heavy load of fear, dread, denial and... See more