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Ex-insider blows lid off Trump 'spectacle' that may actually be GOP's secret midterms plan
Trump’s UFC Night Was Not a Gag. It Was Targeting.The Power Behind the CostumeThe point is not that Donald Trump showed up at a UFC event and looked comfortable doing it. The point is that he understands where cultural identity can be converted into political leverage, and he uses it. Anthony Scaramucci, hardly a Trump loyalist, is warning Democrats that the appearance should be read as groundwork, not theater.That is the real story: institutional power does not always announce itself through policy memos. Sometimes it walks into a cage-fight audience and signals to a bloc of voters that the…
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