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America's sleeping giant wakes up —to a nightmare

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Trump Built the Crisis. Institutions Made It Possible.

The Damage Has an Author

Donald Trump holds the presidency. His administration commands the executive branch, directs immigration enforcement, shapes foreign policy, and initiated the decisions described here: war with Iran, mass deportations, and confrontation with Canada.

That is the essential political fact. Rising oil prices, disrupted trade, community terror, imprisonment, deportation, and death are not weather systems that happened to descend on the country. They are consequences of choices made by people…

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