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Discontents of Trumpism

Trump grasped that America is suffering from an epistemological weakness as well as economic ones

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Adrian Wooldridge | NYT
TRUMPOCRACY
The Corruption of the American Republic
By David Frum 
HarperCollins 
301 pages; $25.99

Donald Trump is the oddest president America has ever elected. He lived in a gilded tower on New York’s Fifth Avenue but nevertheless became the voice of the left-behind. He made his public reputation as a reality-TV star but nevertheless defeated one of the most experienced politicians in the land. Trump has done so many extraordinary things in his first year in office, from tweeting about nuclear war to conducting public business in sight of paying guests in a resort he owns, it’s easy to forget that, unless impeachment intervenes, he