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I'm Magna Chakrabardi, and this is the jackpot where on point news analyst Jack Beattie

helps us connect history, literature and politics in a A Prince of Our Disorder.

Oh, and who might this Prince be, Jack?

It's Donald Trump, and the disorder is grievance.

Ours, Frank Bruni, writes in his new book is The Age of Grievance.

And he talks about the man and the moment meeting in this paragraph.

In such an era, a pureele former president

in unprecedented legal jeopardy,

counted on his talents for modeling grievances and for stoking them to save him.

He assessed the psychological and political currents of his country and determine that if he stuck with his stick

that the system was corrupt that everyone who targeted him was an unscrupulous political hack, that he was a martyr and his torture,

a symbol of the contempt to which his supporters were also subjected, he might survive, and prevail on the wings

of grievance.

He sought to fly above the sordid messes he made.

And we knew, I think what we're gonna talk

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