It's the personal nature of the affronts that seems new.
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Bezos has largely stayed quiet in response to Trump's affronts.
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Besides — like most women — I'm used to these small affronts.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon is used to affronts to its sovereignty.
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Unionist protests have flared over far smaller affronts to British identity.
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He gave no sense of which Chinese affronts he considered most grievous.
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Other affronts and verbal attacks inevitably follow; the evening ends in chaos.
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And to address one of his recent affronts, the 13th amendment does need amending.
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Trump's policies on immigration and climate change are also affronts to the global poor.
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It would teach them not to respond to affronts as male primate dominance challenges.
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But for those in captivity, the phrase encapsulates Gilead's relentless affronts to their dignity.
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But we're not sure what to do with affronts to race like Mr. Maher's.
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The institutional memory in the Trump White House seems predetermined to prioritize snubs and affronts.
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We might be diminishing the power of our lexicon for future and more egregious affronts.
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The denudations look like cow paths cut through sage brush — invasive affronts on the landscape.
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That is just to name two affronts that make the need for Black History Month obvious.
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It's about finding a book that affronts you, and staring it down to the last word.
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When he first started, these affronts angered him, and he would try to verbally defend himself.
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There is no equivalence between his lapses and the moral affronts of the president he correctly diagnoses.
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The scandals and affronts are too many and too various to keep in mind—and also too confusing.
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So too should other affronts to women's human dignity and ability to control their bodies and their lives.
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President Obama needs to put a stop to these outrageous affronts to our human dignity and human rights.
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Christian conservatives will ignore the President's well documented affronts and attitudes toward women because, well, he's on their side.
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China has let similar affronts pass without meaningful retaliation in recent months as it tries to seek a deal.
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And they're affronts to a history of POC being inundated with segregated mentalities (if you can't beat them, leave them).
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But in a way, it's scarier to imagine how quickly the affronts will pile up simply by doing banal things.
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The network is far more equipped to deal with these affronts than the political and policy content of his administration.
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They arrive as horrifying affronts and shimmering diversions that seem capable of remolding our thought processes and reformatting our memories.
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The DNC is meant to be a neutral presence in party primaries, and even minor deviations from that position are affronts.
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With such egregious affronts to privacy becoming commonplace, it's clear that women celebrities are being especially targeted by hackers and trolls.
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These are clear affronts to the First Amendment protected activities of free speech and the freedoms to peacefully associate and assemble.
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For Jimenez, Sessions' announcement was the second of what felt like personal affronts to she and her family over the past month.
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Even then, though, the press has no language for explicating which affronts to press freedom are more urgent and dangerous than others.
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The political commentator Rod Dreher blogs for the American Conservative, where he offers a running catalog of moral affronts and liberal provocations.
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Maxine Waters, the most senior African-American woman in Congress, brought women's stories of systemic, widespread and routine affronts rushing to the surface.
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The bill of particulars with regard to affronts to the rule of law is significant and encompasses actions from across the political spectrum.
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Should it shield youngsters from the fraught world they will soon enter or, by exposing them to its affronts, prepare them for it?
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The Zenger case did not change the law; courts in Britain and the colonies continued to treat affronts to the government as criminal.
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After Max calls the police on Kevin and personally affronts him, Kevin vows to stop at nothing to get back at the billionaire.
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By looking at nothing but immediate material interest, Trump, McMaster and Cohn turn America into a nation that affronts everybody else's moral emotions.
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The careless mission, coupled with the "in your face" naming in the executive order, were unsustainable affronts to Yemen and it responded in kind.
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Guns are routinely drawn over real or imagined affronts, and a single instance of violence can still erupt into a retaliatory chain of killings.
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White men are being called out for the transgressions of the last year and also, less obviously, for the lingering affronts of centuries past.
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During his trips to Europe, he either intentionally affronts our allies or, at best, fails to grasp the history of our nation's involvement with them.
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Now, by an action that affronts the essence of open government, he declares that the White House visitor logs shall be closed to public scrutiny.
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It is to distinguish more clearly between policy disputes, however extreme, and affronts to American democracy, however advantageous they may seem to the party in power.
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Consider the following: All of these issues will dog Trump endlessly, if only because Trump rejects even the slightest affronts to his ego and bottom line.
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The "normalization" of Donald Trump became a media watchword, the idea that his daily affronts could be integrated into the routine paces of a quadrennial exercise.
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I wanted to write about The Discourse—the loose set of reflexes and affronts that function as the invisible lingua franca of the social-media world.
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King said at his January town hall appearance that his quote was only referencing Western civilization, which he promised to defend from alleged affronts from the left.
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Palermo's municipal archives — whose late-19th-century grand hall may have been inspired by the Great Synagogue — recently exhibited mementos of more recent affronts to Sicily's Jews.
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Among other affronts, he has tried to discredit the electoral process by making false claims about illegal voting and has peddled false allegations that Britain spied on him.
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Personal Health Most people say "I'm sorry" many times a day for a host of trivial affronts – accidentally bumping into someone or failing to hold open a door.
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"In a time where it feels like every day immigrants and refugees are being met with new affronts to their humanity, I am even more grateful," she said.
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Opinion Columnist It's sometimes lost amid Donald Trump's endless affronts to the Republic, but the undermining of American intelligence capabilities is one of the overarching stories of his administration.
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The former, among several affronts to the administration, had noted that Mr Flynn was secretly in cahoots with the Russian ambassador; the latter was sacked after journalists rumbled that story.
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"These egregious affronts on human rights, eerily reminiscent of some of the darkest chapters in our nation's history, are the sad reality for Black people in America," the letter reads.
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Sweeney's statement seemed to serve at least as much as a rebuke to the numerous affronts to the rule of law that have become common currency in our populist era.
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The pattern of the United States' tepid response to these affronts has been to apply incremental sanctions to get Pyongyang to back off a bit and then to defuse tension.
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It has got us keyed up in ways that we previously were not, and it has put us on alert for all kinds of offenses and affronts, and they're all legitimate.
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What's missing from this and other Trump-era affronts isn't the vocabulary to note that Trump is deviating from norms, but the vocabulary to explain why the norms he's shattered are important.
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Attached to Brooks's statement was a "Resolution Reinstating Jeff Sessions as United States Senator," detailing Trump's recent affronts regarding the attorney general and making the case for his return to the Senate.
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In the 6-page letter Trump sent to Capitol, the President calls Pelosi's actions "spiteful" and veers into what he sees as personal affronts, saying she's violated her own oath of office.
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"A brilliant speaker with natural authority, he also possesses the tactical wit to rein in AfD MPs if they were to stage calculated affronts against established political culture," said Carsten Nickel of Teneo Intelligence.
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Leading the charge against Goop's insights—and other affronts to common sense—has been Jen Gunter, who is doing the Lord's work as she cuts Goop to ribbons on the issue of scientific accuracy.
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A rallying cry of the progressive left is to not "normalize" Donald Trump, and to stay vigilant in rejecting his lies, cruelty, and affronts to the institutions that define the US system of government.
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Trump has been reluctant to publicly criticize Russia throughout his time in office but the US Congress continues to introduce new sanctions and acts targeting Putin for various affronts, including the annexation of Crimea.
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Other recent affronts include Panama's severing diplomatic ties with Taiwan, China's arrest of a rights activist from Taiwan on state subversion charges and the airline Emirates banning Taiwan flag pins on its flight attendants.
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But we're also in it because those stories — anecdotes drawn from her own life, about the indignities and affronts that come with being black in the United States — will resonate with or implicate us.
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Over the course of Trump's campaign, some of his most shocking affronts to our national character have come in his assault on the First Amendment—a beacon of true American exceptionalism if ever there were one.
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While Pyongyang's propaganda missives are usually limited to blustery, even humorously over-the-top language, the regime lashes out strongly to any perceived insult of its leadership and has reacted kinetically to previous affronts to Kim.
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How will it all work with Trump's senior adviser Steve Bannon, former head of Breitbart News, who has a long rap sheet of racial, ethnic and sexist affronts and a long-running war on Washington Republicans?
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The history of American cinema is punctuated with similar outrages in hotel rooms and studio suites, one that is inseparable from its history of routine racism and sexism, structural discrimination, individual affronts and even criminal assaults.
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The rhythm goes this way: What Americans see as affronts to their sovereignty lead them to tighten restrictions on Russia's interplay with the global economy, which then leads the Kremlin to push back harder against Washington.
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President Donald Trump on Monday rejected the Democratic-led House of Representatives' impeachment charges, describing the allegations that he had abused his power and obstructed Congress as affronts to the U.S. Constitution that must be rejected.
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America was widely despised around the world after eight years of the George W. Bush administration—then voters elected Barack Obama in a landslide, he reversed some of his predecessors worst affronts, and global impressions swiftly changed.
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Many of the show's rawer moments are underpinned by real-life affronts that Stephen sustained; the second episode's jailhouse beating stemmed from a day he spent in jail after being arrested for possessing a gram of weed.
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But many of President Trump's policies could have a direct effect on those who work in fashion, from his views on trade and the immigration ban to his affronts on LGBTQ rights and women's access to healthcare.
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Still, those tend to be more niche affronts: The Aperol spritz isn't really the drink of the people, and despite it being quite mainstream, a handful of folks who haven't yet had bubble tea probably exist somewhere.
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No matter how fearsome the political and cultural affronts that history produces might become, our last, irreducible possession, which would be plain to us if we were suddenly placed upon a barren desert, is respect for human dignity.
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In "The Right Way to Say 'I'm Sorry'," Jane E. Brody writes: Most people say "I'm sorry" many times a day for a host of trivial affronts – accidentally bumping into someone or failing to hold open a door.
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All such affronts are generally lumped together in a way that makes it unclear whether the media thinks it's worse that Trump blacklists outlets and wants to sue journalists into penury or that Clinton doesn't like holding press conferences.
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In the era of "build the wall," this exhibition takes its own stand with the hope that everyone, regardless of skin tone, background, or immigration status, must recognize and combat a bellicose rhetoric that affronts the most basic of human decency.
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The Iranians have since seized on other American actions they view as arrogant affronts, including a Supreme Court ruling last month that cleared the way for the use of impounded Iranian assets to compensate American victims of attacks attributed to Iran.
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Fresh off 10 years of sputtering outrage in character as "Stephen Colbert," a conservative, Bill O'Reilly-esque news anchor known for seeing liberals as affronts against America, he seemed to have lost the teeth he bared on The Colbert Report.
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So the substitute is action: suffering and illness on Bellman's journey, narrated so quickly it cannot be felt; the threat of rape for Bess; and racist affronts to Old Woman From a Distance, who is cheated and has his hand broken.
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Two hot-heads are not good news for stable diplomatic relations, and it is unlikely that Trump would accept that the strategic benefit of a long-term close relationship between Washington and Manila outweigh the short-term costs of Duterte's diplomatic affronts.
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Perhaps most worrying for Democrats who want to focus on Trump's ugliest affronts, 33 percent of voters thought Trump's immigration policies were "about right," and another 0003 percent wanted to see them toughened; only 46 percent thought Trump had gone too far.
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Far rightists such as France's Marine Le Pen cheer the Central Europeans' ballot box victories and affronts to the EU, viewing them as the bastions of a Europe-wide movement: national populism in power, exactly where she and her peers want to be.
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But the spasm of violence has raised questions about whether radical Muslims here — who have largely confined their activities to pushing for Islamic laws, persecuting religious minorities and ransacking bars that they consider affronts to Islam — are becoming pawns in Indonesia's secular politics.
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I knew many of them by name—in a time before the company began its policy of always putting customers' names on cups—and started preparing their overly complex affronts to Italian coffee tradition the moment I glimpsed them walking up to the door.
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Its history abounds with tales in which creator Gene Roddenberry, his showrunning successors, and the production studios that bankrolled them came up against objections and affronts from networks in their struggles to get what would become the franchise's most successful entries to the small screen.
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Conservatives who used to denounce worker databases such as E-Verify and national ID cards as affronts to the rights of states, business owners and individuals to make their own security and hiring decisions now support all such measures to round up undocumented immigrants.
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In town squares and deep in the woods, in secret and on public display, white men, women, and children of all social classes participated in the kidnapping, mutilation, and killing of African Americans said to have committed serious crimes—or minor affronts on white honor.
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Attacks on innocent people gathering in a place of worship or enjoying a holiday meal are affronts to the universal values and freedoms that we hold dear, and demonstrate yet again the brutal nature of radical terrorists whose sole aim is to threaten peace and security.
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But a figure as public and generally respected as Comey throwing around the L-word like that is politically damaging to say the least, not to mention a personal affront to Trump—a man who doesn't have a history of letting affronts go without losing his cool.
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In that kind of sweltering heat — which here in ruthless New York automatically came with the added affronts of suffocating humidity, truck grit, broken glass, screeching subway cars and the stench of some unexplained three-day stretch without garbage pickup — a cold beverage was hardly enough.
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"Attacks on innocent people gathering in a place of worship or enjoying a holiday meal are affronts to the universal values and freedoms that we hold dear, and demonstrate yet again the brutal nature of radical terrorists whose sole aim is to threaten peace and security," Pompeo said.
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Controversies like his proposal to ban Muslim travel into the U.S., create a deportation force to expel millions of immigrants, and build a wall along the southern border are covered less as affronts to American values than as gauche ideas that might harm his poll numbers with minorities.
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By way of explanation, officials cite 36 complaints OCR received from, or on behalf of, those working in the health care system from President Donald Trump's election through early January of alleged affronts to religious beliefs and moral convictions—up from 10 such complaints it had fielded since 2008.
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Flight attendants and passengers have experienced (and often documented) all kinds of affronts to personal health and hygiene in the tight quarters of an airline cabin — from blood on the tray table latch to dirty diapers in the seat back pocket to a barefoot woman who picks her feet and toes.
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In "Home," their second evening-length piece, which builds on a previous work, "Run," Nia & Ness offer a more detailed portrait of their lives as a black lesbian couple in New York City, using spoken text and dynamic movement to convey the violence and small daily affronts they have experienced.
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They view Trump's decision to nominate a solid conservative for the seat of swing vote Justice Anthony Kennedy as only the latest in a series of massive affronts committed by Republicans, beginning with their total refusal to even meet with Merrick Garland -- President Barack Obama's nominee to replace the late Antonin Scalia on the court.
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It's one of many affronts devised by Bertlmann in a breathtaking array of media: drawing, photography, sculpture, film, installation, and wearable art, including a set of finger gloves made from pacifiers pierced with X-Acto blades — a horrifying concept on every level — transforming her fingers into talons and her hands into lethal weapons (as documented in the 1981 photograph "Knife-Pacifier-Hands").
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"Comey, ironically, boasted many affronts to Black communities and communities of color during his tenure with the FBI, including the dismissal of racist state-sanctioned violence, and efforts to [dismantle] the growing Black Lives Matter movement, similar to the FBI's efforts to dismantle the Civil Rights and Black Power movements just a few decades prior," the joint HU Resist statement reads.
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But we have come a long way from George H. W. Bush (contra his urgings for a kinder and gentler nation) quaintly calling Bill Clinton and Al Gore "bozos" in 1992 to Mr. Trump's huge index of tweeted affronts, or from previous presidents being caught cursing on live mikes to the new one's penchant for gleefully bellowing epithets at rallies.
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