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Trump’s revenge plan relies on a return to the tortured past of the George W. Bush administration
Who said there are no second acts on the American public stage? The good fortune of Donald Trump’s narrow escape from an assassin is a powerful recent exception to that rule, along with his GOP nomination this week after his 2020 election loss. Now …