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Morning Memo | TPM

Morning Memo | TPM

Trump's playbook of racism, white grievance, and othering. Let’s be clear. This isn’t your grandpa or your crazy uncle in the privacy of your holiday dinner

Morning Memo | TPM
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56% Informative

Not since George Wallace has a national candidate exploited racism for personal political gain the way Trump has consistently for going on a decade .

It takes a racist to exploit the kind of divisions that Trump traffics in, but focusing on his personal animosity toward people of color runs the risk of making this a psychological profile or a morality play.

A plea deal spares the 9/11 plotters at Guantanamo the death penalty is probably the right thing to do.

Justice Samuel Alito lost the majority on not one but two cases he originally was assigned to write.

CNN ’s Joan Biskupic has another piece pulling the curtain on the recently completed Supreme Court term.

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51

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semi-formal

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English

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