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When Donald Trump says make America great again, we know whose America that is.

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George Packer
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 13
Journalist
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Santa Clara
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I would caution anyone who thinks the solution is to get out to realize that Iraq will be our problem, whether we're there or not, for years to come. It will not be Vietnam it will not let us go home and lick our wounds.
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With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.
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Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.
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It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.
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Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.
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Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.
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When I interviewed Paul Bremer in his office he had almost no books on his shelves. He had a couple of management books, like Leadership by Rudolph Giuliani . I didn't take it as an encouraging sign.
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Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.
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I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history.
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American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.
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I am reading The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers and Redeployment by Phil Klay . Both Powers and Klay are Iraq War vets. Klay's stories are remarkable.
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Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party.
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People in Congress are willing to shut down the entire government or to make it impossible for a Supreme Court nominee to get a hearing or for routine appointments in the executive branch to go unfilled for years because of a hold placed by a senator.
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Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film.
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I'm reading a bunch of fiction by Afghan and Iraq War veterans for a New Yorker piece. There hasn't been that much, but it's starting to come out, and some of the fiction is really good.
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There's a great book about that, The Breaking Point by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway.
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We all know who Donald Trump's talking to.
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You don`t have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.
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This is why mustard gas is such a danger or any weapon of mass destruction is such a dangerous thing because it - it's victims become everyone in the end.
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I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too many other things that say what goes on in someone's head than the books they have.
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