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struggle4progress

(118,320 posts)
Mon Aug 7, 2017, 02:47 AM Aug 2017

In his words and ours

Aug. 7, 2017

"If Trump, who only recently became Republican, wants to win until we’re tired of winning, there’s an obvious path to consensus. Alternatively, he and the members of the Freedom Caucus can celebrate the virtues of partisan polarity and ideological purity — in a very small room" ...

"Think about this, the sitting president of the United States announcing that he is not a crook — well, in his telling, not a suspected crook — as he fires the man who has been leading the investigation of his presidential campaign’s possible involvement with Russia" ...

"President Trump's budget demonstrates the costs of accepting lies as a normal currency in politics, broken promises as a customary way of doing business, false claims of being 'populist' as the equivalent of the real thing and sloppiness as what we should expect from government" ...

"This is vintage Trump — impulsive and cruel, without an ounce of class or human decency" ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/opinions/donald-trump-200-days/?utm_term=.017eee1ca6ed

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