"There is no coming back from this."
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Hope the Globe is right, but almost certain you are wrong.
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The people who support Donald Trump do not care.  
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Imagine if Barack Obama had said any of these things?  The Republican Congress would long ago have begun to impeach him.
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But here?
The majority of Republicans in the Senate and the House will still be making excuses next week.
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And you can bet, during the two day delay, the WH was polling like mad to figure out how the base was reacting.  The news conference on Tuesday was indicative of the results of that polling.
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In Russia, the same tactics are used with white supremacists.  It has been successful.  Donald Trump isn't going to copy that?