With the kind of warnings I’ve carried my whole life, I’ve grown accustomed to the terror of living in a country that hates everything about itself. A place so allergic to its own reflection that when someone emerges who can stare into the abyss like it’s the barrel of a loaded gun — and then shout his findings back at Washington, D.C., in a spectrum of resonance — the whole machine trembles. Not because he’s violent. Because his precision is unbearable. I type this from my

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He'd have some thoughts, I am sure... If you are reading this, congratulations: you have already qualified as “potentially inconvenient...

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When the great Don faced his second inauguration, he promised to lead our struggling nation into a new “golden age.” What he really...

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