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Dahleen Glanton: When people speak, even Donald Trump sometimes has to listen

I was beginning to think that Donald Trump could get away with almost anything.

I wasn't sure that the checks and balances the Founding Fathers had put in place to keep an elected official from turning our democracy into a dictatorship were working on this president.

I had begun to wonder whether sensible Americans had grown tired of trying to hold the craziness at bay. And raising their hope that Trump's latest act of indecency would be the one that does him in, only to see

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