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Political Theater, Episode 356

A helicopter flies near the crash site of the American Airlines plane on the Potomac River after the plane crashed on approach to Reagan National Airport on Wednesday evening.
A helicopter flies near the crash site of the American Airlines plane on the Potomac River after the plane crashed on approach to Reagan National Airport on Wednesday evening. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted January 30, 2025 at 4:59pm

The early days of the second Trump administration have brought us an intense debate over constitutional authority and the role of government, which has been folded into the unstable and chaotic political era we find ourselves in. Is this destabilization something that will endure? Or is it one of many similar, rough times in our history — say the 1960s — when politics and the government were tested and evolved but, overall, held?

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