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Trump's Grudges Are His Agenda

The president’s personal attacks are not a distraction from his policy goals. They are his policy goals.
Source: Jim Bourg / Reuters

The least convincing Republican defense of Donald Trump’s attack on Mika Brzezinski surely belongs to White House principal deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who declared that Americans “knew what they were getting” when they elected him. The implication is that because Americans understood that Trump was a vulgar misogynist during the campaign, there’s nothing wrong with his vulgar misogyny today.

Put aside the showed that among Americans who prioritized “good judgment,” Clinton beat Trump by 40 points.

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