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Only politics, not the law, can stop Donald Trump

If politicians do not stand up to him again, his lies will otherwise remain an effective political and legal tool.

On reading the latest criminal indictment of Donald Trump, this one for trying to overthrow a duly elected president, certain feelings return with renewed power, including that stomach-churning mix of wonder, dismay and exhaustion at the volume and absurdity of his lies about the 2020 election.

But a surprising new sentiment stirs as well: nostalgia. American politics seemed so much healthier back then.

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