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The Trumpian Trap

Who's chaotic now?

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Ben Domenech
Mar 05, 2025
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The strangest thing happened last night: The Democratic Party, which has built its success in recent years thanks almost entirely to framing themselves as the candidates espousing normalcy versus the chaos offered by Republicans, showed up to Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress and cried havoc.

Part of this may be due to institutional decay. The sig…

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