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Beware the Pundit-Brained Version of the Democratic Convention

The New Republic · Meredith Shiner · last updated
It’s one of those moments that is tattooed on your brain forever—if your brain is the kind that is fully occupied by an encyclopedic memory of inane political moments that normal people forget: Donald Trump steps out onto the stage for the first debate of the 2016 Republican primary, fields the

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