
'Trump represents the smashing of an idea of innocence'

The all-but-sacred idea of what it is to be US president was smashed beyond repair this week
Something was smashed beyond repair in the United States this week. Not the glass ceiling that would have seen the first woman in the White House, but rather the all-but-sacred idea of what it is to be a US president.
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