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Lucian K. Truscott IV (page 18)

Lucian K. Truscott IV, a graduate of West Point, has had a 50-year career as a journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He has covered stories such as Watergate, the Stonewall riots and wars in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan. He is also the author of five bestselling novels and several unsuccessful motion pictures. He has three children, lives in rural Pennsylvania and spends his time Worrying About the State of Our Nation and madly scribbling in a so-far fruitless attempt to Make Things Better. You can read his daily columns at luciantruscott.substack.com and follow him on Twitter @LucianKTruscott and on Facebook at Lucian K. Truscott IV.

Donald Trump; Newt Gringrich (Getty/Olivier Douliery/zimmytws/AP/John Locher/Salon)

Stop making sense!

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James Mattis; A US marine in Afghanistan (Getty/Chip Somodevilla/Joe Raedle)

Please stop thanking me for my service

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(Getty/Shutterstock/Photo montage by Salon)

America votes the way it eats

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Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello (Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello/Ryan Jones)

Jefferson’s children: Slavery, citizenship and family at Monticello

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Paul Ryan; Mitch McConnell; Grenfell Tower (AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Manuel Balce Ceneta/Getty/Leon Neal/Salon)

Grinding down the cracks in the system

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"Street kids" who were the first to fight with the police at Stonewall ON Sunday, June 29, 1969 (WikiMedia)

The night they busted Stonewall

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Mitch McConnell; Donald Trump; Paul Ryan (AP/Alex Brandon/Reuters/Rick Wilking/AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Photo montage by Salon)

Tell ya what let’s do: Let’s come up with another way to insure Americans

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Power in the absence of money

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Richard Burr; John McCain (Getty/Win McNamee/Alex Wong/Photo montage by Salon)

They might keep their jobs, but they won’t keep their reputations

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Old caulk, PVC pipes and wax doughnuts: Trump has leaks, but I don’t

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Dan Coats; James Comey; Mike Rogers (AP/Alex Brandon/Andrew Harnik/Photo Montage by Salon)

Profiles in Poltroonery

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Trump tweets while people die

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Our disgruntled dictator

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Jared Kushner (AP/Evan Vucci)

Return of the international man of mystery

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A Memorial Day Parade for the rest of us

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The King of Contempt

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Fred Trump; Donald Trump (AP/New York Military Academy)

Why does he do it?

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(Courtesy of the Author)

Slavery is America’s pre-existing condition

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Bob Woodward; Donald Trump (Getty/Tasos Katopodis/AP/Jae C. Hong/Photo Montage by Salon)

The most serious crime in Washington, D.C.

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(AP/Alex Brandon)

Dead man lying

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Americans are witnessing a slow-motion coup

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The scene of a car-bomb explosion, July 29, 1986, in West Beirut, Lebanon. (AP)

This is what winning looks like

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The joker’s smile!

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Michael Flynn (Getty/Kevin Hagen)

Was Michael Flynn a Russian agent of influence? A modest proposal for how that could have gone down

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