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Hello and welcome to trump cast. I'm Virginia Heffernan.

Will Trumpism survive Trump?

Increasingly, I'm convinced it won't and not just because I don't want to have to

boot up Trumpism cast, but because I believe, after more than four long years on this show, that Trump as

president has been too disjointed and cacophonous and really shocking to exist in a pervasive work day ideology.

Trump is sui generous.

I mean we've had racists on the American main stage before but not one who's been

as much of a demagogue, as illiterate, as

showboating, as corrupt and as cruel. And not on the main stage that is the

Oval Office for someone that has all that going

against him. And if we had someone like that he wasn't unmoored ideologically a

depraved maniac calling himself a Christian who sometimes says he wants to arm everyone

...