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Degringolade is a wonderful French word that basically means falling down the stairs, although by extension it is commonly used to refer to a bankruptcy.
So I think a morally and intellectually bankrupt presidency had a degringolade moment today over the citizenship question. The delayed announcement by Mr. Trump that he would not in fact be issuing an executive order mandating the inclusion of the citizenship question on the census, followed by Attorney General Barr's rather pathetic attempts to sweep up the mess, were low points even for an administration as disorganized and incompetent as this one.
Chief Justice Roberts of the Supreme Court hogtied Donald Trump on this issue on June 27, and it took Trump until today to figure it out.
I look forward to the many post-mortems, and I won't get into the weeds here, but I think this was probably his worst day since Helsinki. Which was only last summer. Feels like a lifetime.
I'd like to predict that this will end quickly and neatly, but I just don't believe it.
See also An Inflection Point.
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