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How do you make sense of the daily disasters pouring out of Trump & Co.? Start at the beginning.

Trumpworld Begins takes you back to 2016–2018—the years that primed everything that followed. Donald Trump's first term shattered the gentility of the Obama era and launched an era of backstabbing, ideological warfare, and a constant desperate scramble for the President's ear. The chaos unfolding today didn't appear out of nowhere. This is where it grew.

Drawing on his political blog from those pivotal years, author John F. Goodman captured the first-term culture as it happened—using satire and humor, monologues and dialogues, and sharp media analysis to document the disintegration of American political institutions in real time. These posts are t ...more

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	Mingus Speaks 3.85 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Thus spoke the great philosopher George Santayana in 1905, and his words have always gotten wide currency. I almost took it for the epigraph to Trumpworld Begins because it so powerfully expresses that we learned nothing from the lunatic’s first term. In 2016 many seemed unable to predict the future or learn from the past, …

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“Erano quasi luoghi di culto, in cui musicisti e pubblico condividevano un'intimità etilica (come accede ancora oggi naturalmente)”
― John F. Goodman, Mingus Speaks

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“Se cominciassi a ragionare al contrario, camminerei all'indietro.”
― John F. Goodman, Mingus Speaks

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