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Are You Ready Yet To Accept Donald Trump For Who He Is?

The president's raucous Arizona rally fits a familiar pattern for Trump and should finally put an end to the persistent question of whether he will "pivot" and be more presidential.
President Trump gestures during a rally at the Phoenix Convention Center Tuesday night.

President Trump led an incendiary rally at which he ripped at cultural divides, played to white grievance, defended himself by stretching the truth or leaving out key facts, attacked members of his own party and the media, played the victim and threatened apocalyptic political consequences — all the while doing so by ignoring political norms and sensitivities.

The only thing that's surprising is if you're surprised by it.

Trump held these kinds of rallies and made these kinds of comments repeatedly throughout the campaign. And even did so in Arizona. Remember back in August of last year when he flew to Mexico to meet with the Mexican president, where he was restrained and deferential, and then held a raucous rally later that day in Arizona?

Granted, Trump's actions Tuesday night stand in stark relief from his sober, scripted . He did not deliver specifics on how to

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