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Stephen Miller's 'pained' reaction puts damper on raucous Mar-a-Lago bash: new book
Mar-a-Lago as StatecraftPower Wears the CrownThe source material is not really about a party. It is about a governing class that has collapsed the distance between personal vanity and public authority. Donald Trump is the only actor in the room who plainly holds the real institutional power. Everyone else is orbiting him: Cabinet officials, advisers, donors, and performers arranged around a president who is described as behaving as though nothing could touch him.That matters because the scene is not decorative. It is a demonstration of who gets to turn the machinery of the state into a…
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