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If Trump’s first term is any indicator, the next four years will be an unmitigated mess of infighting, corruption, revolving door staff, facile demands and fragile egotism.

She makes sure we’re always right there with Rona, but it’s a facile shadowing; we never land anywhere long enough — pre- or post-rehab — to feel either layered pain or the hard tick, tick, tick of genuine progress.

And despite the media’s facile comparisons of the Trump and Biden economies, Trump’s tariffs and tax cuts did nothing to improve the economy and caused the national debt to soar, after the pattern of his Republican predecessors.

It can seem a little facile, as it often does when you analyze the art in terms of the life, but it’s also fairly persuasive.

Not because it hasn’t sprung from a sandbox, but because it’s such a facile and specious argument: Why, Trump demands, hasn’t Harris already accomplished all that she is promising on the campaign trail?