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Last week, Donald Trump turned 80. He spent his birthday watching grown men beat each other to a pulp in a series of cage fights on the White House lawn. This exercise in mindless brutality, this fetishization of cruelty and of inflicted pain, is a perfect metaphor for Trump 2.0. It is coarse; it is crude; it is culturally debased. It is, in short, the quintessential Trump distillate.
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