Michael Kruse: “He has and always has had a real instinct for story — not just the ephemera of gossip, which he loves, but big, long-arc, animating sort of superstories, too. One of the most powerful stories in human history is us against them. And it’s been fuel for Trump’s electoral rise and rule — the notion he’s stoked that he’s an avenger for regular people who are the us set against elites and other assorted foes that make up the them.”
“The Epstein story isn’t going away (or at least wasn’t?) because it complicates this superstory. It suggests to the legions who’ve been partial to Trump that actually maybe that’s not right — that actually maybe he’s less one of us and more part of them.“
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