identified it, and this remained a central fact of the campaign. If interest in Trump was waning, even just a little bit, he’d yank the chain of the media with an insult or racist slur or reactionary outrage—and there would be CNN and the Times and Fox News dutifully eating out of his hands. Like so much about Trump, if it weren’t tragic, you’d laugh—or cry. In the frantic days after I’d first floated the coming Trump candidacy, I started to feel myself change. The transformation wasn’t obvious to me, at first, as I just seemed like a harder and more determined version of my prior self—ready,
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