Trump Gets a Taste of His Own Medicine
The master of normalizing the once-unthinkable faces indictment, and no one seems surprised.
by David A. Graham
Mar 10, 2023
3 minutes
“This is not normal,” Donald Trump’s opponents warned as he took office and began enacting his agenda. He gave them so many chances to use the phrase that it became first a cliché and then a sorry joke.
But the warning was not wrong: Trump acclimated Americans to many egregious actions by exposure therapy. What was once novel and frightening became familiar; familiarity bred contempt, but also enough acceptance to let Trump get away with a lot. Ironically, Trump may himself now risk
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