American Tension: Trumpism, the Squad, and the Battle for Primacy
15 min readJul 22, 2019
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O let America be America, the land that never has been yet- Langston Hughes
Since Donald Trump’s repugnant attack demanding that four Democratic Congresswomen “go back” to the “crime infested places from which they came,” (hint: America, in 3 out of the 4 instances) a cottage industry of Kremlinologists has attempted to discern his intent. Is Trump a master manipulator, throwing the public off of the scent of his association with the disgraced Jeffrey Epstein? Is he attempting to shape the table before the Muller…