Trump, Putin, and the Assault of Anarchy
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I am taken aback, and not for the first time, that terrible and shocking things now just flow over Americans as if chaos is part of a normal day. We don’t have to accept the new normal.
But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
The Widening Gyre
I began the morning, as I often do, with a cup of coffee and a discussion with a friend. We were talking about last week’s from Russian President Vladimir Putin, and while we were on the subject of unhinged threats, I mentioned Donald Trump’s over the weekend that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had a “DEATH WISH,” with a racist slam on McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao,
