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Analysis by Aaron Blake, CNN President Donald Trump has spent a decade painting large swaths of the United States as a hellscape, dating back to his dark 2017 inaugural address and his demagogic 2016 campaign.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
13 Oct. 2025 -
Even aside from Trump’s own enthusiastic personal immorality and impiety, his political style — the pugnacious smear artist and demagogic braggart — was the antithesis of what evangelicals had sought before.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
23 Sep. 2025
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That was the extent of her involvement in the special counsel’s investigation, which led to more than 1,500 people being charged and most convicted of trespassing, vandalism, assault or seditious conspiracy.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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Rhodes had been convicted of seditious conspiracy after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol but his sentence was commuted by Trump earlier this year.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Rabble-rousing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rabble-rousing. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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