Donald Trump has shown time and again that he’s a human toxic waste dump, sabotaging everything he touches. His six bankruptcies are proof of that. But one of his biggest failures foreshadowed his current attempted takedown of the Republican Party — and the nation — almost perfectly. Unfortunately, it happened 35 years ago, so a lot of people have forgotten it..
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New conquests require new enemies, and Trump can’t help but make them. … But these external enemies, whether they’re Democrats or “fake news media” or Never Trumpers, are really proxies in an internal war against himself that he can’t admit he’s fighting.
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The contrast with Trump couldn’t be more profound: The Donald listens to nothing but his own often misguided instincts and cares about no one but himself. He’s under the dangerous self-delusion that he never makes mistakes, so he never apologizes and — crucially — can never learn from them. Biden, on the other hand, acknowledges he’s not perfect, which means there’s room to grow. To get better.
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By taking Trump seriously — whether it’s because he’s the president or because we don’t want to look petty ourselves — we make him appear credible. And he’s not. We shouldn’t treat him like he is.
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