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Stories Are A Tool, And Tools Can Be Deadly

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Will It Bring Down the Central Player?

O blackford did not withdraw, as p the parliamentarians request, and so he was withdrawn. The outcome for a political figure inside a scandal is almost entirely determined by this question: how much is that political figure needed by those who have the power to swing the axe? Nixon succumbed to watergate, we're told, because of the decency of republicans at the time who could no longer stand by the president. But zom out one level and you'll find that republicans turned on nixon because america was not yet ideologically sordid and party polarized. And that's the sentiment that may well oust boris johnson - not the effrontery or the inherent callous

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