WASHINGTON — This city and this country, are, in a word, exhausted.
The velocity of news in the Trump era has been unprecedented. The passions expressed in this period have few peers in history. The election left the country weary — and left just under half the voting public embittered. The United States is, quite simply, worn out.
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