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Trump the Redemptionist: The Coming American Armageddon
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Trump the Redemptionist: The Coming American Armageddon

In his inaugural address, Trump promised to impose his regressive vision of the country on us all—with the help of God, and the billionaires seated behind him.

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by Michael Tomasky

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It’s not just a cruel irony that, as many have observed, Martin Luther King Jr. would have opposed Donald Trump and likely been out protesting somewhere today had he been alive. That’s obvious. The cruelty of the joke that Trump swore the oath of office on MLK Day runs much deeper than that, because each ma…

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