Opinion
America, we can no longer pretend Trump is not who we are
The Harris campaign, as the Biden campaign before it, laboured under the misapprehension that more exposure to the Republican would repel voters.
Carlos LozadaColumnistIn recent years, I’ve often wondered if Trump has changed America or revealed it. I decided that it was both – that he changed the country by revealing it. After the 2024 election, I’m considering an addendum: Trump has changed us by revealing how normal, how truly American, he is.
Throughout Trump’s life, he has embodied every national fascination: money and greed in the 1980s, sex scandals in the 1990s, reality television in the 2000s and social media in the 2010s.
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