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I suppose I need to make it clear up front that I’m not much of a fan of Donald Trump. I don’t think I need to explain why either. There’s a good chance you reflexively understand the particularities of my distaste: the naked corruption, the antipathy for governmental function, the consistency with which he pays lip service to the darkest and strangest contingencies in the right-wing underworld. Mostly, though, I’ve just never loved the way Trump talks to, and about, other people. There is just something insecure about his approach. His macho barbs are always expressed via iPhone, and all carry the unmistakable stench of a guy coming up with what he wanted to say i

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