June 16th marks eight years since Donald Trump descended the escalator into the muck. We’ve had eight years of a shameful epoch that still has no name. It’s too painful to call it “the Trump Era” and there’s no convenient catch-all like “Watergate.” The placid period between 1815 and 1825 — roughly the time James Monroe served as president — was called …
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