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Today is Monday, July 15, 2019.

I am John Poghord, the editor of commentary, the 70-odd year old monthly of intellectual

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So we are in the midst of yet another Twitter nightmare controversy involving the President

of the United States suggesting that the squad, the four far left democratic women of color

members of Congress go back where they came from.

Now, I want to propose this happened Sunday morning and by Sunday morning plus point

one seconds the entire world of commentary and politics was a wash and horror and denunciations

and everything like that.

So I want to propose three separate theories of what Trump was up to with the tweet, some

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