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Ezra Klein: “Donald Trump's impulses have become nearly religious…”

Featuring: Ezra Klein, Liberal | New York Times Columnist and Podcast Host | National

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Ezra Klein and Stacey Abrams on How Donald Trump Has Broken American Politics Forever

Published | Video Starts at 05:11

And you could see that in the way his administration ends up acting. So I do think that, even more so than for normal presidents, Donald Trump's impulses have become nearly religious emanations from a figure viewed within his own coalition as nearly in his second term. This was not true in his first mystic, having come back through the court cases and the assassination attempts and won this victory, they have changed. They view him. (05:11–05:26)

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Asserts that Trump's impulses are seen as nearly religious by his coalition, as if he is in a second term.

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