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There’s Method Behind King Donald’s Madness

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 1/30/17

Donald Trump spent a good part of his first week as President trying to prove that, rather than growing in office, he still harbored the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old and the vindictiveness of the cranky 70-year-old that his birth certificate would reveal him to be if compelled to produce it.

But for all the head-shaking and eye-rolling induced by his twin obsessions over how turnout for his inauguration stacked up against Barack Obama’s first swearing-in and whether the popular vote for President had been hijacked by aliens, it was startling how much of the most-controversial elements of his agenda had moved forward. Some of his goals may be similarly misguided and even—to dust off a now-loaded but in this case apt word—deplorable, but Mr. Trump was making an emphatic statement that he was trying to re-shape political reality rather than bowing to conventional wisdom.

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