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The GOP Goes Rogue

The Republican Party’s wholesale embrace of Donald Trump, despite his brazen lawbreaking, is not merely symptomatic of the current political moment. Rather, it is the product of an intellectual and legal movement that has been shaping conservative thinking for decades.

CAMBRIDGE – In 2017, just when the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus closed after almost 150 years, the political extravaganza of Donald Trump’s presidency became the “Greatest Show on Earth” – or at least the hardest to ignore. And now the criminal fallout of Trump’s political high-wire act has become the new must-see spectacle.

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