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'Breathtaking': New danger posed by Trump makes James Carville rethink his famous phrase
The Economy Was Never the Whole StoryJames Carville is suddenly bothered by the slogan that made him famous. In a recent podcast appearance, he said “It’s the economy, stupid” helped train politics into a narrow contest over prices and incomes, and that Trump’s open corruption now makes that framework look dangerously inadequate. That is the surface. The deeper story is that Carville is admitting, late, that the political class spent years teaching voters to measure power too cheaply.Carville’s Belated CorrectionCarville is right about one thing: corruption under Trump is not an abstract…
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