Trump Is Testing How Far He Can Go

Trump is testing how far he can go

Trump’s threat to strip Rosie O’Donnell of her citizenship is a “test.”Kids do it all the time. Throw a tantrum in the store demanding cookies and if the parents don’t remove them from the store right away, every visit will see the tantrums escalate. Testing the boundaries. When the test succeeds, the boundaries get moved and a new boundary gets tested, on and on until finally the child’s behavior is so egregious he’s stopped. Or he always gets …

The Authoritarian Test: From Rosie to Retes, Who’s Next?

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