Jill Lepore, a historian of the first order, puts the last bizarre 100 days in good perspective in the April 28 issue of New Yorker:
Trump felled so much timber not because of the mightiness of his axe but because of the rot within the trees and the weakness of the wood.
Trump felled so much timber not because of the mightiness of his axe but because of the rot within the trees and the weakness of the wood.
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Many of the institutions Trump attacked, from the immigration system to higher education, were those whose leaders and votaries knew them to be broken and yet whose problems they had failed to fix, or even, publicly, to acknowledge.