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President Donald Trump’s apologists were convinced that the confirmation of Justice Neil Gorsuch, the strikes on Syria and the mega-bomb dropped in Afghanistan signaled Trump had “grown.” He’s learning on the job! He’s coming back into the mainstream! As we’ve seen each and every time he showed signs of maturing, excitement over momentary improvement was vastly overblown.

Consider this past week:

- Trump was uninformed or lied about the whereabouts of the USS Vinson, falsely suggesting the “armada” was heading for North Korea.

- While foreign observers and human rights group...