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'Suffer and die?' CNN struggles to make it through Trump's 'alarmist' post
Trump’s Panic Is Not Confusion. It Is a Tool.The SetupCNN’s reporting describes a familiar scene: Trump issued a 400-word Truth Social rant after three candidates backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani won House primaries, and then carried that rhetoric onto a stage at the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference. That is the surface event. The real story is who gets to define the stakes, who benefits from the panic, and who is expected to absorb the consequences.Power Speaks FirstThe only actor in this story with actual institutional power is Trump. He is the president, he commands the…
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