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The bottom fell out: Trump's second term in freefall after 18 months
The MAGA “Landslide” Was a Narrative Laundering OperationPower Belongs to the Winners, Not the Hype MachineDonald Trump won the 2024 popular vote by about 1.5 percent. That is not a landslide. It is a narrow win inflated into a mandate by people who benefit when weakness is disguised as inevitability. The source material is useful because it punctures the fantasy: the actual institutional power sat with Trump and the GOP, but the supposed proof of overwhelming public consent was mostly rhetorical smoke.The Landslide Claim Was Political MisdirectionRight-wing figures repeated Trump’s…
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