The so-called United States of America* seems to have entered a new phase of being. He staked 1/2600th of his fortune on a man who cheats at golf, is now $83 billion richer, and gets to fire whomever he pleases. Let us test our thesis with a little experiment, by way of an age-old question: do clothes make the man? A little over a decade ago, then-president Obama appeared at a press conference while neatly dressed in a tan suit. ‘Is it The United States is?