Gormley: Donald Trump's given us a new normal – and it's abnormal

It is not enough to call these times insane. To know insanity, you must know what is normal and identify the ways in which reality dramatically deviates from it.
President Donald Trump habitually violates democratic norms. But what norms, exactly? If nothing else (and it did provide little else of value), the state of the union gave us a marker: An opportunity to consider the State of the New Normal and the undoing of sanity in American political life.
Democratic norm: The president conducts him