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Trump Has Defined Deviancy Down

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Charlie Sykes: “The puppy-killing ICE Barbie has been benched; Greg Bovino, the cosplaying Himmler has been fired. And Trump has dispatched Border Czar Tom Homan to Minneapolis…”

“While the humiliation of Kristi Noem and Bovino’s defenestration are delicious, we should stifle any naive exuberance about what’s happening here.”

“On the surface, it looks like Trump blinked… Unfortunately, this is piffle on stilts… Indeed, regarding the deployment of Tom Homan as ‘conciliatory’ is what Daniel Patrick Moynihan once described as ‘defining deviancy down’ — shifting standards to redefine anti-social or deviant behavior as more or less normal.”

Ron Fournier: “President Trump and his team lied about what we all saw in Minneapolis. Now they want us to believe they’re atoning. Don’t believe them.”

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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.

Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.

Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.

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