Decoding Trump 2.0


Typical incoherence: Trump likes to pit appointees against one another so that his own position stays safe and only he has the final say, says the writer. — Reuters

THE dust hardly settles following a Trump presidential election, win or lose, before the next electoral dust-up.

The stakes are so high and the passions so intense that the anxieties cannot subside after just one election cycle. Normal expectations cannot apply when normalcy itself is often in question.

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