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Trump's stranglehold slips: Secret deal proves Republicans are revolting
Trump’s Grip Is Not the Story. The Machinery Is.President Trump failed to get Todd Blanche confirmed as attorney general without a written guarantee that the IRS slush fund would be killed. That is the useful fact here. The rest is the usual media trance about whether Trump is “losing control” of the GOP. Control of what, exactly? He still can terrorize primary voters. He still cannot fully command legislators who have to survive a general election. That gap is where the real politics lives.The Senate Has Leverage When It Uses ItThe power in this episode sits with Republican senators, not…
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