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Trump has made everything Jimmy Carter warned about catastrophically worse: analysis
The Carter Speech Trump Proved RightThe Real StoryThe immediate subject here is Jimmy Carter’s 1979 warning about national decay, but the political fact pattern is contemporary: Trump’s administration not only revived the conditions Carter described, it managed the symbolism around Carter’s death with petty executive control. Carter did not receive the usual flag-at-half-staff treatment because Trump did not want it interfering with his inauguration. That is the governing style in plain view: institutional ceremony subordinated to one man’s schedule, and national memory bent around his…
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