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Live shot of Trumpists dealing with aftermath of "send them home" 1/
Is it me, or is this the most abject political retreat we've seen in the Trump years? Normally, when people react with outrage to his bullying and racism, he just doubles down 2/
This time, while there is of course no apology or admission of going too far, we're seeing desperate gaslighting – he didn't say what he said, or mean what he obviously meant. In practice, they're admitting that Trump went too far 3/
The worst, by the way, was (predictably) Grey Worm – I mean, Lindsey Graham – saying that it was about criticizing Trump, not the color of their skins. Does that mean I have to go back to Utica? 4/
But seriously, while the usual suspects were insisting that Trump was playing 12-dimensional chess, it looks as if Trump's people themselves are seeing political disaster 5/
And Greg Sargent offers an answer: Trump's advisers panicked when they realized that his Two Minutes Hate looked bad on TV 6/ washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
