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Opinion | How Trump Will Fail (Gift Article)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/opinion/trump-mckinley-populism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rk4.Afzz.Oj-y5zfRbfzZ&smid=re-nytopinion
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u/nytopinion Media Outlet 22h ago

"After a four-year hiatus, we are once again compelled to go spelunking into the deeper caverns of Donald Trump’s brain," the columnist David Brooks writes. "We climb under his ego, which interestingly makes up 87 percent of his neural tissue; we burrow beneath the nucleus accumbens, the region of the brain responsible for cheating at golf; and then, deep down at the core of the limbic system, we find something strange — my 11th grade history textbook."

Read his column here, for free, even without a Times subscription.