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Americans Aren’t Rallying to Trump

A president who writes off half the country can’t expect to garner support from a crisis of his own making.
Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

So that was not exactly the Cuban missile crisis.

In apparent retaliation for the killing of Iran’s top terror commander, Iran fired short-range ballistic missiles in the direction of military bases inside Iraq. The missiles inflicted no casualties on U.S. or allied forces.

The truly horrible news seems instead to be an accident: the crash of a Ukrainian Airlines flight to Tehran, which killed all 176 people aboard. The largest group among them consisted of 63 Canadian nationals. The cause of the crash remains uncertain. As of early this morning, the Iranian authorities had recovered the aircraft’s black boxes, but they did not intend to send them to the plane’s manufacturer, Boeing. If a poorly

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