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When your regime is part mafia spoof, part constitutional crisis, things stop being funny

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The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight was a 1971 movie starring Robert DeNiro about a mafia family in New York that's led by a buffoon who surrounds himself with other incompetents and thus seems to always screw everything up. It's the perfect metaphor for the Trump administration. Over a period of several years, I did consulting work for one of the three-letter federal agencies that keeps our nation secure. It was back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and I was the CEO of an Atlanta advertising agency; this work involved how that federal department.

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