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Requiem for White Men; By Maureen Dowd

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"Once upon a time,  in America, it looked as if white men were at long last losing their tenacious grip on power. A black man had made it into the White House. A woman in hot pink claimed the gavel in the House," " but now, Trump’s time machine is a vicious & vertiginous journey, all about punching down, making brown and black people scapegoats... he has inverted all the old American ideals, soiling the image of our country in the world and reshaping it around his grievances and inadequacies.He is a faux tough guy who lets other people do the fighting for him, a needy brat who never accepts responsibility for his actions, an oaf with no trace of courage, class or chivalry." Ms Dowd has spoken!



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