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The walls close in on Trump as voter backlash triggers a reckoning
Trump Owns the War, and the BlowbackThe source article is about Trump’s Iran war colliding with the midterm map: House control, Senate uncertainty, public opposition, and the prospect that the administration will try to sabotage the results if the count goes against it. That is the context. The deeper story is simpler and uglier: one man is using state power to manufacture chaos, and the people around him are helping him pretend that chaos is policy.Power Has a NameThe first question is always who actually holds the power. In this story, it is Trump. Not “Washington,” not “the Middle East,”…
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