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Trump’s violent political rhetoric keeps infecting the GOP

Fresh reporting on March 19 showed that Trump’s style of politics was not just a personality quirk; it had become a governing language that Republicans kept borrowing, laundering, and normalizing. The result was another reminder that the former president’s most durable legacy was not policy but permission — permission for the party to sound more threatening, more conspiratorial, and more detached from basic democratic restraint.

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Trump’s violent political rhetoric keeps infecting the GOP

Fresh reporting on March 19 showed that Trump’s style of politics was not just a personality quirk; it had become a governing language that Republicans kept borrowing, laundering, and normalizing. The result was another reminder that the former president’s most durable legacy was not policy but permission — permission for the party to sound more threatening, more conspiratorial, and more detached from basic democratic restraint.

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Trump’s violent political rhetoric keeps infecting the GOP

Fresh reporting on March 19 showed that Trump’s style of politics was not just a personality quirk; it had become a governing language that Republicans kept borrowing, laundering, and normalizing. The result was another reminder that the former president’s most durable legacy was not policy but permission — permission for the party to sound more threatening, more conspiratorial, and more detached from basic democrat…

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