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U.S. soldiers stand next to the portrait of slain conservative commentator Charlie Kirk during his memorial service at State Farm Stadium in Arizona on Sunday.

A billionaire playboy-entrepreneur descending on a gilded escalator with convulsive change on his mind. An impeached President expressing his rage. A mob empowered by a provocative speech surging past security barriers at the Capitol. A former chief executive glaring from a mug shot. An inaugural address promising punishing tariffs and changing long-established geographical names.

To these indelible images of the era – the 21st-century analogues of Franklin Roosevelt with Winston Churchill at Placentia Bay, the hatless John F. Kennedy bidding Americans to ask what they could do for their country, the subdued Ronald Reaga

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