An Ode to Trump’s Outtakes
His post-insurrection-speech rehearsals are even more revealing—and disturbing—than the final version.
If, as Carl von Clausewitz once observed, the mark of a historic moment is that no one knows what the fuck is going on, then what we have here is a historic moment. (Pretty sure it was von Clausewitz who said that.) What we have here is , the day after his people , trying to strike a tone. Which tone? He doesn’t know. And
