This Trump Speech Was the Ultimate Loyalty TestSomething has ruptured in American politics.

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I’m recording this on Wednesday morning, March 5. Last night, President Donald Trump gave his first address to a joint session of Congress in his second term.

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Ezra Klein: Aaron, welcome to the show.

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Thanks. Let’s plunge right into it: What did you make of the spectacle? What did you make of the speech? What were they trying to do? What was he trying to do? What was happening there?

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I felt that the first 15 minutes of the speech were different than what came after — in an alarming way. I don’t quite know how to describe this, but you could feel something rupturing. You could feel that we had broken American politics already, and there was now nothing really governing action.

I’d say that was the case in a couple of different ways. One way had to do with Donald Trump and the Republicans. We will talk about the level of lying Trump did in that speech — the genuinely baldfaced lying.

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