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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Board

Kevin McDermott: Trump has always hated the Constitution. The GOP is just now figuring that out?

It says something about today’s Republican Party, and not something good, that those rare GOP members of Congress who have condemned Donald Trump for seeking the “termination” of the U.S. Constitution are being credited with unusual courage. Such condemnation should be a baseline for any elected official, not a novelty.

More to the point, those precious few all sound like they’re doing some political imitation of Captain Renault from “Casablanca”: They’re shocked — shocked — to discover there is constitutional contempt going on here!

What movie have these people been watching for the past six years?

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