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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Molly Ball on whether facts matter in politics

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Tug of War Between Paul Ryan and Donald Trump

There is clearly this tug of war because clearly Trump is not someone with firm ideological moorings. I think that was supposed to be one of his selling points, right? Was that he was sort of a non-ideological candidate who could break through the gridlock for certain voters. No, so many people saw what they wanted to see in Trump. And when talking to voters during the campaign, I would hear just polar opposite things about what they thought he stood for.

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