ATTORNEY GENERAL William P. Barr routinely bristles at suggestions that his Justice Department looks more and more like a taxpayer-funded law firm for President Trump. Mr. Barr insists his decisions reflect no other consideration than the rule of law when he sics prosecutors on those who were involved in the Russia investigation or when he …
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Not ordinary lying. Not politician lying. Not the “I’ll build a bridge and then quietly forget” kind of lying. This is industrial-scale, mass-production lying. Lying with confidence. Lying with branding. Lying so frequently that reality needs a lie detector and a therapist.People still ask, very earnestly:“Why does Trump lie so much?”And the answer is simple: …
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When Donald Trump speaks, he does not speak in paragraphs. He speaks in slogans. He does not traffic in nuance, equivocation, or—God forbid—context. His sentences arrive like fast food: hot, salty, instantly gratifying, and with no visible nutritional value. You don’t think about them; you consume them. And yet, when sensible and reasonable people respond …
There is a school of political commentary that insists Donald Trump is some sort of accident—an error in the matrix, a glitch in American democracy that will be corrected by a software update called “the next election.” This school is wrong. Spectacularly wrong. Trump is not an accident; he is a discovery. And like all …
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