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.
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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