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On election night in 2016, Donald futilely try to fill his bottomless pit of narcissistic need. Trump’s victory came as a shock even to him. As results came in, It hasn’t been good for the brand. In exile at Mar-a-Lago, adviser Steve Bannon said, Trump was speechless and “horrified.” he faces the real possibility that disgusted Republicans might Don Jr. said his father looked like he’d “seen a ghost.” Like mil- convict him at a second impeachment trial. He may soon be hit lions of Americans, Melania was crying, and they were not tears with a barrage of state and federal criminal prosecutions for a of joy. Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, later said his myriad of potential crimes. His business empire lies in ruins, longtime boss had told him the presidential run would serve as with massive debts coming due. Former aides and allies, includ- “the greatest infomercial in political history”—a way of pro- ing his once loyal Vice President Mike Pence, now shun him. He moting his real-estate and reality-TV brand. Breaking news: can’t even tweet anymore—oh, cruel fate! In a perverse way, says Trump did not grow into the job. He tweeted, watched Fox, and Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio, “this is the end that he golfed, turning the presidency into just another show. He used would have scripted for himself.” Trump has always seen himself his platform and power to sow chaos, spout lies and disinforma- as “a lonely hero” in a ruthless, Darwinian world, surrounded tion, poison our politics, defy norms and laws, pander to despots, by enemies and backstabbing friends—besieged, betrayed, a alienate allies, downplay and actually worsen a raging pandemic victim fighting everyone to the bitter end. Donald Trump created that’s killed 400,000 Americans, encourage and embolden white his own dystopian reality, and we can now leave William Falk supremacists, incite an insurrection to overturn an election, and him to it. 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(p.10) THE WEEK January 29, 2021 4 NEWS The main stories... Asking for unity, Biden unveils ambitious agenda What happened With most Americans craving “an Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was sworn end to the furious rancor of recent in as America’s 46th president this years,” the measured, bridge- week, pledging to bring civility and building Biden “could be the man for unity to a nation reeling from a deadly this moment,” said The Wall Street pandemic and deeply divided after Journal. But his success will depend four tumultuous years under Donald on resisting “the divisive progressive Trump. “This is our historic mo- domination sought by his party’s ment of crisis and challenge,” he said. left.” Buoyed by “the Democratic “Unity is the path forward.” Kamala media complex and Silicon Valley,” Harris was sworn in as vice president, the party’s left wing aims to “use the the first woman and person of color to federal government as a battering hold that position. After an insurrec- ram to drive economic and cultural tion that saw pro-Trump rioters storm ‘transformation.” To succeed in heal- the U.S. Capitol exactly two weeks ing divisions, Biden must tune them earlier, the nation’s seat of power was Undoing Trump: Biden signs executive orders on his first day. out and not use “the rhetoric of transformed into a veritable fortress, crisis” to pursue “radical change.” ringed by fences and patrolled by 25,000 National Guard members and hundreds of active-duty troops trained to handle chemical, What the columnists said biological, and explosive weapons. In place of a crowd, a sea of Biden’s pandemic stimulus plan is downright “Rooseveltian,” said flags representing the more than 400,000 Americans killed in the Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times. Like FDR, he’s fighting pandemic filled the National Mall, as Biden spoke of a need to end an economic crisis by trying “to address long-neglected problems” our “uncivil war” and “restore the soul” of America.