Donald Trump, as president, was a cultural phenomenon. Were we ‘addicted’ to the storylines?

“None of you — not a single one of you — can look away,” Donald Trump wrote in 2015, as he campaigned for the Republican nomination.

He was talking about just how absorbed we were becoming in the drama of an orange-tinted reality TV celebrity running for President.

“Admit it,” he wrote. “You people want to see just how far this goes, don’t you?”

OK, full disclosure: he didn’t write that.

The Onion did.

But in the years since it was published, that fake op-ed in a fake newspaper has earned a kind of pop cultural cache for its prescience, the headline a shorthand for our collective fascination.

Yes, we did want to see how far it went. As…