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Jonah Goldberg: How Democrats’ defense of Biden reminds me of Republicans’ rallying around Trump

The fallout from President Biden’s miserable debate last week is giving me deja vu.

In the political right’s intramural arguments over Donald Trump, I got some things correct and some incorrect. But I believe I was indisputably right in one respect: From the outset, I argued that Trump’s presidency would end badly because, to echo Heraclitus, character is destiny.

Trump’s presidency did indeed end badly, though sadly his political career did not end with it. Whatever laws he may or

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