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How Trump lost

IT ALL FINALLY CAUGHT UP TO HIM. THE LIES, THE boasts, the disorder and disastrous management, the rants and the race-baiting, the predatory instincts and compulsion to dominate—all the things that made Donald Trump the ringmaster of the American political circus at last compelled a majority of voters to drive him out of the tent.

Modern American history had not seen his like: a showman President who held rapt the country he inflamed, and asked little of citizens except praise. In the end, Trump’s pride did not just precede his fall; it precipitated it. Until the final months, his campaign was

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