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Trump Failed to Stop American Carnage

<span>It’s hard to feel that the U.S. is “great again” when men born and raised here keep going on mass killing sprees.</span>
Source: Saul Loeb / Reuters

President Donald Trump declared in his inaugural address that the “American carnage” some in the nation were facing “stops right here and stops right now.” At his rallies, he speaks to supporters as if he has lived up to his pledge to “make America great again.” But it’s hard to feel that the United States is “great again”

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