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Distinguished UChicago Prof. John Mearsheimer on Pres. Trump: “[Trump] understands that he is in a situation that's worse than the one that Lyndon Johnson was in [in Vietnam]... he's flailing around, and he's going from optimism to pessimism at 95 miles an hour.”

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