Shark Week for KAOS: Trump, Iowa, and the State of Democracy

The 2020 U.S. presidential campaign is already giving the relentless dumpster fire of 2016 a run for its lunacy.

U.S. President Donald Trump, pictured Jan. 29 at the signing ceremony for the USCMA. That the drama in Iowa is unfolding next to the split-screen of Trump’s corrupt, performative presidency awaiting a shot of reanimating adrenaline by Senate Republicans makes it sadly, thematically consistent, writes Lisa Van Dusen.Photograph courtesy of the White House's Flickr

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

February 5, 2020

By the time you read this, the sh*tshow that happened in Iowa on the night of Feb. 3 may have been overtaken by the sh*tshow of whatever an impeached Donald Trump did in the House of Representatives to verbally misrepresent the state of the union while personally embodyi...

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