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Washington Offers Up Bread and Circuses, but the U.S. Is Remarkably Resilient
[National Review] The economy is improving, and our political and economic institutions, though stressed, remain sound. Liberals are truly obsessed with what they think is the menace of President Trump. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof claims that Trump "is systematically undermining American institutions and norms that underlie democratic government: courts, law enforcement, journalism, the intelligence community, truth." He darkly warns: "Epic battles will follow." Watching television this weekend, I could understand how liberals can fill their brain bandwidth with nothing but Trump Thoughts. In the space of a few minutes, Trump launched fresh attacks against Special Counsel Robert Mueller and contradicted his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani’s statement that the president had known about a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. For his part, Giuliani had this bizarre exchange on ABC’s This Week: Posted by: Besoeker 2018-05-07 |
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