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Lucian K. Truscott IV (page 6)

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.

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Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as people try to storm the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. - Demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification. (Brent Stirton/Getty Images)

Democrats have a massive opportunity with Capitol riot committee: Shove it down the GOP’s throat

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Anti-vaccine rally protesters hold signs outside of Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, on June 26, 2021. (MARK FELIX/AFP /AFP via Getty Images)

Republicans have become the Death Wish Party

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Members of the Boogaloo movement hold their rifles in front of the state capitol building in Frankfort, Kentucky, on January 17, 2021, during a nationwide protest called by anti-government and far-right groups supporting US President Donald Trump and his claim of electoral fraud in the November 3 presidential election. - The FBI warned authorities in all 50 states to prepare for armed protests at state capitals in the days leading up to the January 20 presidential inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. (JEFF DEAN/AFP via Getty Images)

The next insurrection: They don’t have the votes, but they’ve got the guns

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Donald Trump, a painting of the Confederate army losing and the January 6, 2021 US Capitol Riot (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Donald Trump and the new Lost Cause

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Smoke trailing from extinguished candle (Getty Images)

Telling stories in the dark: How I became a writer

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump (James Devaney/GC Images)

Nothing is sacred to Republicans — except Donald Trump. It’s all on the line now

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Liz Cheney (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Liz Cheney’s dilemma: Cast out by the Republicans — but hardly cut out to be a Democrat

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American writer Philip Milton Roth, in New York City. (Orjan F. Ellingvag/Dagbladet/Corbis via Getty Images)

From beyond the grave, Philip Roth cancels himself

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Rice noodle salad with shrimp and coconut ginger lime dressing (Lucian Truscott)

It’s finally spring — and time to eat outdoors: Remember what that was like?

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An employee puts a weapon on display at the National Armory gun store on April 11, 2013 in Pompano Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

America’s gun madness: How guns went from tools to ideology to identity

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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Time to see Trump as a normal politician: grubby, grasping, corrupt and banal

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U.S. Air Force Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning stealth fighter flies over the San Francisco Bay in San Francisco, California on October 13, 2019. (Yichuan Cao/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Even by Pentagon terms, this was a dud: The disastrous saga of the F-35

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Donald Trump | Impeachment Trial in the Senate Chamber (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Donald Trump’s last stand: How his desperate attempt to overturn the election failed

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Protesters gather outside the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Republicans are no longer a political party. They’re a mob

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Capitol Riot | The US Constitution, shredded (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty images)

Who loves America? Inciting a riot to sack the Capitol gives us the answer

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The Army Black Knights sing the United States Military Academy alma mater after winning a game against the Louisiana Monroe Warhawks at Michie Stadium on September 12, 2020 in West Point, New York. (Dustin Satloff/Getty Images)

Another scandal at West Point: Where secrecy comes before honor

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A shot of Lucian Truscott taken on the Lebanon/Israel border on Christmas day 1974, the Golan Heights in the background. (Jonathan Broder)

My Christmas among the spies. In the Holy Land. In 1974

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Supporters cheer as US President Donald Trump gestures after speaking during a rally to support Republican Senate candidates at Valdosta Regional Airport in Valdosta, Georgia on December 5, 2020. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump and the Republicans want to turn losing into winning — and it might work

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Ken Paxton | Fort Sumter illustration (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Psycho secession: Texas’ lost-cause lawsuit was the first shot in a new Civil War

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Doctors and nurses taking care of patients in ICU at hospital during COVID-19 (Getty Images)

We are in the greatest cataclysm of our history: It’s not an SNL skit

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Joe Biden and Donald Trump (ANGELA WEISS,SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Cleaning up Trump’s mess: The job begins Day One. Biden is ready

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Lucian Truscott playing with The Fugs at the Mudd Club in 1982 (Photo provided by Lucian Truscott, taken by then girlfirend)

When I was in the Fugs — for one night. At the Mudd Club

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally | COVID-19 patient attached to a ventilator (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump is going out the way he came in: A loser, a liar and a cheat

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Joe Biden (Getty Images)

Joe Biden won, but we lost: There’s no doubt who we are now, and it ain’t pretty

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