He will do it again. You cannot constrain him. So many had told themselves that they could manage the unmanageable president, that they could keep him from going too far, that they could steer him in the direction of responsible governance. Cabinet secretaries, White House chiefs of staff, national security advisers, political advisers, senators, congressmen, family members—they had all at one point or another adopted this reasoning. They had justified their service to him or their alliances with him or their deference to him on the grounds that they could ultimately control him. And what
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