Breaking the Decade-Long Trump Fever

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The President’s unique brand of lurid authoritarianism has finally lost appeal, and he has lost the plot.

Two generations ago, in the fall of 1974, President Gerald Ford and the Republican Party approached the midterm elections with considerable dread. That August, Richard Nixon had learned that he could no longer outrun his crimes in the White House. One tape recording in particular, the so-called smoking gun, proved that he had conspired with his aide H. R.

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