Trump Doubles Down on the ‘Go Back’ Fight and Keeps Republicans in the Blast Radius
Trump spent July 17 turning his own racist-tinted attack on four Democratic congresswomen into a bigger political brawl. Instead of backing off after the House had already condemned his language, he used a rally in North Carolina to press the same grievance and frame critics as anti-American. The result was a fresh round of backlash, more Republican discomfort, and a story that stopped being a one-day outrage and became a loyalty test for the president’s party.
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Trump Doubles Down on the ‘Go Back’ Fight and Keeps Republicans in the Blast Radius
Trump spent July 17 turning his own racist-tinted attack on four Democratic congresswomen into a bigger political brawl. Instead of backing off after the House had already condemned his language, he used a rally in North Carolina to press the same grievance and frame critics as anti-American. The result was a fresh round of backlash, more Republican discomfort, and a story that stopped being a one-day outrage and became a loyalty test for the president’s party.
Trump spent July 17 turning his own racist-tinted attack on four Democratic congresswomen into a bigger political brawl. Instead of backing off after the House had already condemned his language, he used a rally in North Carolina to press the same grievance and frame critics as anti-American. The result was a fresh round of backlash, more Republican discomfort, and a story that stopped being a one-day outrage and be…
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