act as if

Trump certainly should not act as if he is.

The only way to stop him is to act as if Trump does have a plan, and is deadly serious about all of it.

Journalists like Tapper still act as if they can corral Trump loyalists into acknowledging even the most obvious truths.

Most voters are not truly 100% aligned with the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, and yet we act as if we are all on one side or the other and there is no gray.

“What I find remarkable is how quickly Russian genetic memory has come back, and how people who didn’t live in those times suddenly act as if they did,” says Nina Khrushcheva, a Russian-American professor of International Affairs at The New School in New York.