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'Like a hospital board meeting' — with yelling: Inside the GOP's lunch with Trump
Trump’s Party, Senate’s Theater, and the Politics of Manufactured DisciplineThe Real Center of PowerThe lunch was sold as a unity meeting, but the only real power on display was Donald Trump’s. He controlled the agenda, canceled the housing-bill signing to force the election measure onto the table, and used the room to press Senate Republicans to fall in line. The senators could complain afterward. They could not change the hierarchy.That is the basic fact the article mostly circles without saying plainly enough: this was not a negotiation among equals. It was an attempt by a president to…
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