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One of the more rare delights of our time has been the unfolding melodrama since Donald Trump, coming down an escalator in Trump Tower, officially wandered into the wild and brutal arena of American politics. Americans have seen some remarkable politicians — heroes, rogues, giants and mediocrities. From Washington on they have provided a gallery of characters as rich as any to be found in the pages of literature.
Trump in one way exceeds them all. Not in eloquence surely, nor in leadership, though there is in Trump’s leadership much more than his fierce opponents are willing to grant, nor in his policies or in the cabinet he has built for himself.
Trump has brought the incomparable, exciting, dismaying, elevating, risqué and spontaneous, earthy and unstoppable personality of himself to the art of American politics. To comprehend or define that personality is beyond the capabilities of this laptop. But that it has been utterly explosive, unprecedented, maddening and unpredictable touches on some of its most salient characteristics.
On the pure narrow ground of what change he has brought to politics that most defines his White House occupancy I say, without irony, that it is his consistent and so far unfailing capacity to unset, even to derangement, the minds of those who most disparage and despair of him. His impact on the Democratic-friendly media — most of the big channels and a slew of their cable epigone — has been fundamental. He has made them forget that a tradition of neutral journalism was even an accepted standard, evacuated their once proud sense of balanced, fair judgment, and turned many of its large-name performers into frothy caricatures of what journalists are supposed to be.
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(2) Jim Jordan Makes Fitting Observation About Schiff’s Interruption During Tuesday Hearing
(3) The Hyper-Partisan Stupidity Arms Race
(4) Vindman Exaggerated His Resume In Prepared Congressional Statement
(5) Mr. Vindman, lose the uniform
