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Ugly presidency

This ugly election turned out to be the disappearing boundary between entertainment and reality.

Seduced by the roar of the crowd and hijacked by a dark force he doesn’t try to fathom, Donald Trump is manic.His only presidential consideration is a tweeted stream of grievance and anger.

When he tweets, facts soon invade the incoherence of what he’s selling. All attention is now on mass deportations and calls for protectionism. Where is fixing the roads and the bridges and the tunnels and the jobs therein?

The irony of living under so much prejudice and stupidity is that eventually the only thing which could save this presidency would be the power of the liberal safeguards in our Constitution.

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