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Trump Is Lobotomizing Our Government
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Trump’s national security adviser has made clear that he sees his job as serving as a kind of human cocktail of drugs for the erratic president—part palliative, part sedative.
David Rothkopf
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Feb. 22 2020
11:17PM EST
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Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty
David Rothkopf
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