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Sharpiegate Represents A Turning Point In American History

Sharpiegate Represents A Turning Point In American History

American democracy as we know it is now officially over.

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Sep 10, 2019
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by Ben Cohen

The normalization of Donald Trump and his extraordinary lies has led the United States into unchartered territory. It isn’t that Trump is a bad leader, disorganized, or ineffective — it’s that the president is completely detached from reality, and has dragged half of the country with him into his own bizarro world. The rest of us now have t…

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