Is President Trump a Tool of Tribal America?

Benjamin Cain
Nov 7 · 7 min read
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Donald Trump’s presidency is a gift not just to comedians but to intellectuals. You can learn ten times more about the world from his presidency than you could have learned from a Hillary Clinton one. It’s like figuring out how something works by taking the thing apart. What we’re seeing from Trump’s time in office is a broken political system, but Trump’s incompetence as a traditional politician reveals the…

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Knowledge condemns. Art redeems. That’s roughly what I learned as an artistic writer who did a doctorate in philosophy. We should learn enough to see the comedy

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