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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Acknowledging a bitter defeat is never easy

We turn, one last time, to Hans Christian Andersen.

Over the past four years, many observers, this one included, have found one of the Danish writer’s most famous tales irresistible for explaining both Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s slavish sycophancy toward him. In “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” a monarch parades through town naked, having been convinced by swindlers that he’s actually

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