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Now It’s Up to Congress

James Mattis did his best. But the onus of dealing with Trump rests with the body invested with it by the Constitution.
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Donald Trump is intellectually, emotionally, and ethically unsuited for positions of public responsibility. The Atlantic argued this in an editorial published just before the 2016 presidential election, and I tried to document it in more than 150 installments through the election year.

This reality means that, for people whose principles date to any era before Trump’s, serving under him brings daily reminders of the impossible choices the great economist laid out in his book . Each day they stay with this regime, they

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