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Crowd erupts as Trump asks 'should we run one more time?'
A Third Term Joke Is How Norms Get SoftenedThe SetupAt a rally in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump toyed with the idea of running for president again, asking the crowd, “Should we run one more time?” The audience cheered. He was speaking at a Mack Trucks plant about the economy, but the point of the moment was not policy. It was provocation.Who Holds PowerThis is not a loose-cannon comment from the sidelines. Trump is a former and current president with enormous control over the Republican political field and a proven ability to turn spectacle into discipline. The people with actual institutional…
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