Three Opinion Writers on the L.A. Protests and Trump’s Spectacle of Control

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  Thank you. This is The Opinions,

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  a show that brings you a mix of voices from New York Times opinion.

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  You've heard the news.

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  Here's what to make of it.

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  I'm Michelle Cottle.

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  I'm a writer in opinion,

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  and I'm here with the fabulous columnist David French and Tressie McMillan Cotton.

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  Guys, welcome, and I am so glad you are here to help me make sense of the latest crises.

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  It's great to be here with y'all.

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  Well, I'm not sure I promised to help make sense, Michelle, but I am here.

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  Well, Tressie, you can at least explain to me what is happening.

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  This is really what I need.

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  Because at this point, I think we all have to agree,

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  there is no denying that we are truly living in Trump's world.

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  First, there was all that flooding the zone with executive orders,

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  and now he's reshaping both our short-term and our long-term futures.

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  And by our, I mean all of us,

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  because the administration is doing many things that many people said that they would never do,

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  which we will get to the long-term and that big,

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  beautiful bill in a minute, which could have a generational impact.

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