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Buried deep inside new CNN poll is the most brutal news yet for Trump
Trump’s Collapse Is Not The Story. His Power Is.The Poll Is Catching UpA new CNN poll shows Trump sinking badly on basic questions of competence, self-interest, and stamina. Greg Sargent uses it to describe “Late Stage Trumpism,” and the numbers are ugly: Americans see him as out of touch, self-dealing, and too consumed by his own business interests and renovations. That is the useful context. The deeper point is not that voters suddenly discovered Trump’s character. It is that the public is now measuring, in polling form, the cost of a presidency built around one man’s appetites.The…
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