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Trump claims a mandate from his narrow victory without reaching beyond his core supporters.

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We’ll write and talk about more later, but for now we all have some comments on the inaugural speech itself.

[Jonathan here:]

We knew what we were going to get from Donald Trump’s inaugural address, and wow did we get it.

Normal inaugural addresses are inclusive. Trump? There was little or nothing in this speech for anyone but his strongest supporters. Th…

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