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Edition · April 18, 2017
The Daily Fuckup — April 18, 2017
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Closing take
The through-line here is familiar even this early in the Trump presidency: the administration loved the posture of disruption, but disruption is not the same thing as discipline. On April 18, 2017, the White House kept finding ways to collide with the practical realities of governing, and the collision produced the day’s real news.
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