At Long Last, the Rules Apply to Donald Trump
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The first column I ever wrote about Donald Trump appeared in the Daily Beast, where I worked at the time, in the summer of 2015. As I recall, it was not long after Trump said of John McCain that he preferred heroes who weren’t captured. I sized up the situation—a draft dodger making a breathtakingly ugly and arrogant statement about a man who spent nearly six years in brutal captivity—and applied what I knew about politics and wrote confidently that Trump would fade away, round about World Series time. Obviously, I vastly underestimated three things. First, the depth of people’s anger at the…
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At Long Last, the Rules Apply to Donald Trump
The first column I ever wrote about Donald Trump appeared in the Daily Beast, where I worked at the time, in the summer of 2015. As I recall, it was not long after Trump said of John McCain that he preferred heroes who weren’t captured. I sized up the situation—a draft dodger...
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