‘He may be a lunatic, but he’s our lunatic’? The GOP doubles down on destruction

By keeping Donald Trump in the White House, the Republicans will disprove the theory that the corruption degrading American democracy is all about one man’s narcissism.

If the chaos besieging America were really just about one man’s narcissistic personality disorder, the Republicans in the Senate would be scrambling to remove Donald Trump from office, writes Lisa Van Dusen. White House photograph by Joyce N. Boghosian

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

January 29, 2020

Over the three decades Donald Trump teased America about a presidential run, nobody took it terribly seriously. The credulity gap beyond the recoiling of the political establishment was more about why a guy like Trump—real estate developer, modelizer, pageant impresario—would submit himself to t...

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