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Treating Trump's first win as an aberration let his opponents keep the moral high ground without confronting the breadth of the challenge he posed.
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- Ben Rhodes American writer and former official
By clinging to the aberration narrative, Democrats (and never-Trump independents and Republicans) could simultaneously occupy a moral high ground without confronting the breadth of the rebuke and challenge posed by Trump’s ascent
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