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Remembering the ‘Olden Days' Before Trump

Remembering the ‘Olden Days' Before Trump

Peggy Noonan frequently reminds us that Donald Trump, like the rest of us, has faults ('When Establishments Fail: Trump's 100 Days,' Declarations, May 3). Fine. But when she writes that his supporters look at his foes and say, 'They had it coming,' it suggests she needs to get out more, as southerners like to say.
Borrowing a phrase from Michael Corleone: 'It's not personal, Peggy, it's strictly business.' That business would be cleaning up the mess from Joe Biden, wokeness, cancel culture, open borders, pronouns and so on. The list of bad stuff was long. Some of us say chaos is a small price to pay to eliminate what we suffered for four years.
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