Everything you need to know about the mess that is America in 2019 can be explained by our deepening national belief that Bigfoot is real — I. Patterson’s Beast This begins, as it must, in childhood. The year is 1982, and I am six years old, sitting cross-legged on a living room carpet, transfixed by the television. The show I’m watching concerns monsters — no doubt a documentary with a tautology for a title, something similar to Unexplained Mysteries…