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Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
Updated 1028 GMT (1828 HKT) April 27, 2021
(CNN)Donald Trump schooled his protégés well in his politics of down-in-the-muck misinformation.
The ex-President’s Washington devotees and media backers are proving they don’t need him in the White House or blazing away on Twitter to stir his stew of lies, false realities, assaults on democracy, circus politics and racial grievance. The test of their approach will not be in whether it is true. It’s whether it works in helping House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, who has anchored his own reputation to the autocratic and vengeful ex-President, to win the speaker’s gavel next year.
It’s not as if unchained lies and cartoonish antics are the only options for the GOP.
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Carl Sagan
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