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Did Trump Finally Move Us Past Sept. 11?

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February 20, 2016 8:02 p.m.
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Countless reasons why Trump’s frontrunner status is stunning, unexpected, earth-shaking and all the rest. But I can’t get past the fact that they guy who won New Hampshire and South Carolina openly and sneeringly bucked GOP orthodoxy on George W. Bush’s 9/11 record. I didn’t expect any Republican candidate to do that in my lifetime and win.

 
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