Healing America's Narratives

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America's Collective Shadow

America's Collective Shadow

As Embodied by Donald Trump

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Reggie Marra
Apr 30, 2025
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In 2016, before he was elected, and again in 2018, after he’d been confusing the U.S. with his family’s business for two years, I wrote that Donald Trump embodies the collective national shadow of the nation.

As Hunter Thompson wrote of Richard Nixon, I want to thank Mr. Trump for never letting me down—for continuing to prove me right at a breakneck, unf…

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