Politics

Our Slide Toward Soft Despotism Has Begun

No Denying It

We once thought we could count on the adults. But the man-child in charge turns everyone around him into a child.

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Many had hoped that the “adults” in the White House would check the influence of Donald Trump’s “yes men” and steady a chaotic president. Instead of them making Trump better, he’s actually making them worse.

In the past week or so, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Vice President Mike Pence, White...

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