OPINION: Trump’s first year was even worse than feared

Donald Trump,White House,Politics

Posted on AllSides December 26, 2017

Eugene Robinson

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Grit your teeth. Persevere. Just a few more days and this awful, rotten, no-good, ridiculous, rancorous, sordid, disgraceful year in the civic life of our nation will be over. Here’s hoping that we all — particularly special counsel Robert S. Mueller III — have a better 2018.

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