Trump’s Second-Term Achievements Provoke New Depths of Hypocrisy Among the Discredited Ranks of His Opponents

They are, among other absurdities, likening an inconsequential national security conversation that caused no harm to the Bay of Pigs fiasco.

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President Trump walks to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House. AP/Mark Schiefelbein

The decisive victory of President Trump personally and in the congressional elections in November incited a good deal of curiosity about the response of the discredited ranks of his opponents. They had loudly predicted the end of democracy and putschist and revanchist activity that would quickly legitimize their charges against him of being a lawless aspiring dictator of fascist inspiration. 

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