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Six months

Six months

An alphabetical diary of Trump II, ICYMI

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Anand Giridharadas
Jul 20, 2025
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Six months. It may not be long enough to grow a baby or build a house or land a liquor license, but it is enough time to break a country. To disembowel its institutions, to lay waste to its ideals, to darken its spirit, to make it crueler and harder and more fearful than before.

As Donald Trump’s second presidency approaches the half-year mark, I wanted …

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