One of Donald Trump’s more uncanny attributes is the ability to expose truths that most of our elites are too timid to acknowledge. It was common during his administration to hear mainstream journalists, staffers for congressional Democrats, or left-leaning political consultants whisper, once the third round of drinks was brought around, that on Russian “collusion” or solar-panel farms or the Kennedy assassination, Trump kind of has a point.
So it is with the classified documents. You know, the ones he took from the White House—boxes and boxes of them—in flagrant violation of the requirements of the National Archives and Records Administration, only to leave them languishing in a Mar-a-Lago bathroom, or on the stage of a ballroom there, like faded costumes from a high-school production of The Pirates of Penzance. Yet through his very misdeeds, Trump has revealed our submission to oppressive bureaucratic-technological systems.
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