Trump is a Symptom, not the Disease

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You can call Donald Trump a lot of things. Evil, for one. The unhinged leader of a MAGA cult. Narcissist Supreme. Benedict Donald.

Accurate as they may be, those descriptors don’t tell the whole story.

The truth is Trump is a symptom of a long-standing disease afflicting our nation. Think of Trump as the latest, and probably largest, tumor in our body politic. A malignant…