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The Bulwark

The Bulwark

How Trumpism Rots a Small City

The Bulwark
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In claiming to be a champion of the residents of Springfield , Ohio , Trump and his acolytes have ripped them apart.

The migration of thousands of Haitians to Springfield , attracted by warehouse and manufacturing jobs, has created real tensions.

Trump says he wants to protect these communities, inflaming tensions within them.

William Kristol : Taylor Swift has spoken out against Kamala Harris in her choice for the White House .

He says Swift is speaking to other Americans who have standing to influence the judgment of their fellow citizens.

Kristol says we have a choice between one candidate whose career has been a long train of abuses.

There’s lots we could say here about all the structural rot in Trump ’s movement that this episode reveals—how a person like Greene who became a MAGA celebrity by attacking the previous “establishment” from the lunatic right was always destined to get outflanked by somebody still more shameless and conspiratorial in the hearts of the base. But this newsletter is already a bit long, so instead we’ll just say:.