Donald Trump’s “Golden Age” of Corruption and Cronyism
The miraculously resurrected president promised in his inaugural speech to resurrect a country that was doing quite well without him at the helm.
by Timothy Noah
“The golden age of America begins right now,” Donald Trump said Monday at the start of his second inaugural speech. “Our golden age has just begun,” he said at its end. Actually, what Trump intends to usher in is, as my TNR colleague Matt Ford noted this morning, a second Gilded Age—an epoch of pol…
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