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'Tough position': Todd Blanche gets stark warning as he ponders Trump betrayal
The Confirmation Trap Is the PointPower Is Still Trump’sTodd Blanche is not trapped by the Senate in any meaningful democratic sense. He is trapped by the structure he signed up for: a confirmation process in which loyalty to Donald Trump is the real qualification and Senate Republicans are the gatekeepers performing just enough independence to preserve their own cover.The source story is simple enough. Senate Republicans are resisting Trump’s demands, and that resistance may jeopardize Blanche’s confirmation. But the deeper reality is uglier: Blanche’s position exists because Trump wants a…
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