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This Week and Next - August 22, 2025

A Substack Safari Through Trump's America

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Joshua Powell
Aug 23, 2025
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Friends, what a positively riveting week it's been in my corner of the Substack universe, and I mean this in a bad way. I've come to believe Trump will not survive this term. I am going to dive deeper into this next week.

Look, there will never be another Donald Trump - and that is a good thing. But others will try to be him. And maybe that is why for the past few weeks I've been doing deep dives into those he surrounds himself with. This was the design of Project 2025: keep us so distracted by the velocity and volume of bad acts and scurrilous characters we'd lose our bearings. We can't let that happen.

In case you missed some of last week, here's a recap:

Lady Lindsey's Magnificent Capitulation

The Spectacular Lady G and that Spring Day

Lindsey Graham's breathtaking political metamorphosis: one moment Graham is delivering soliloquies about Trump being "a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot," and the next he's batting his eyes like a besotted cheerleader at homecoming.

What transpi…

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