Trump's Character Is Explained by His Character

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i view him as some sort of moral lunatic, and i really would not be surprised by anything he does. But he has a personality cult around him, which used to be the republican party. And certainly with what these republicans who have records of normal political behavior have done. I is a response to some kind of hysterical overreach by the democrats and by the deep state. Risotatrump represented such a threat to the way things were that we had a amedian for structure and a a deep state that tried to destroy him at any cost. What you saw on the trump side and on the republican side was just an attempt to, you know, if te

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