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Kathy L Weiss
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But there’s a third thing here, which is — and I know this thanks to a very good piece that Michael Scherer did in The Atlantic — that this has been a real fight over control of the 250, and believe it or not, there was bipartisan agreement on how we should celebrate it.
But instead, we’re just thrust into starting out with a sport that the late #JohnMcCain described as “human cockfighting.”
Second, it is not at all surprising, but still astonishing, that he has really tried to fold his own birthday into the country’s birthday, and suggest that somehow these are equivalent or equal events. I mean, perhaps that goes too far, but he’s really merged the two.
It’s once again going to the base, and at a moment when we could talk about the Constitution and the Declaration, and while we do argue a lot — and they’re good arguments, I think, about the meaning of the Constitution and the Declaration — we all honor them.
And with Trump, it is always playing to the base. These numbers are hard to find, for sure, but as best I can tell, it appeals to about 16 percent of us, overwhelmingly male.
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There was a group called America250, and then Trump came in and essentially took it over, kind of knocked that aside. But there was a great quote in Scherer’s piece: “This is straight out of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ when Henry Potter steals George Bailey’s money and tries to drive him to the brink.”
Dionne: A couple of things about this: First, I don’t think it’s a great idea for Donald Trump to be reminding everyone that he’s 80 years old at this moment, when he shows various signs of faltering or saying very odd things.
Unable to UNITE Americans, FIGHTING is all Trump knows. He glorifies it:
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