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The wrinkled emperor has no clothes — and even his own supporters are finally waking up
Trump Is the Mask. The Party Is the Machine.What the source is really aboutThe source article is not a neutral report. It is a reaction to Bret Stephens using his New York Times perch to denounce Trump in unusually blunt language, praise the idea of stripping Trump’s name from federal property, and argue that Republicans will eventually have to move past him. The surrounding commentary treats that shift as late, partial, and deeply revealing.The figurehead is not the whole structureTrump is the obvious villain in the source, but he is not the whole power structure. He is the public face of a…
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