On a new live recording from his Land of Hope and Dreams tour, Springsteen isn’t warning us about authoritarianism: “This is happening now.”

Still, there is something remarkable about the fact that, after Springsteen launched his European tour by declaring that the United States “is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration,” the president of the United States, the most powerful man in the world, would completely lose it.