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Trump’s niece sounds the alarm: He’s 'in a downward spiral'

Trump’s Decay Is Not the Story. The Power Around Him Is.The Man at the CenterThe source frames Donald Trump as a deteriorating old man, but the political fact matters more than the diagnosis: he is still the president, and the institutions around him are still arranging themselves around his vanity. That is the real scandal. Not his wounded ego. The system that keeps feeding it.Mary Trump’s comments, as reported here, describe a president trapped in humiliation, projection, and declining impulse control. That may explain the spectacle. It does not excuse the people who keep staging it.Who…

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