America in an Age of Immaturity. How did we get into this mess? Every morning, many Americans ask this as, with a cringe, they pick up their phones and look to see what terrible thing President Trump has just said or done. Regardless of what hes complaining about or whom hes attacking, a second question comes hard on the heels of the first How on earth do we get out of this? Alan Wolfe has an answer. In The Politics of Petulance he argues that the core of our problem isnt Trump himselfits that we are mired in an age of political immaturity. That immaturity is not grounded in any one ideology, nor is it a function of age or education. Its in an