Welcome to the Trump circus — without the clown-in-chief

Other politicians are now playing the same destabilizing role as the former president

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Josh Hawley.
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Remember the Trump administration? I sometimes wonder if we do.

Not the big moments — the corporate tax cut, the chummy meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, the insults to our NATO allies, the two impeachments, the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. Those events have become part of our country's recent political history and remain fully present in our minds.

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Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.