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If establishment elites succeed in impeaching and removing President Trump, it will set a disastrous precedent for the nation. Whoever replaces Trump would be too intimidated to resist the steamrolling carnage of the “effete snobs.” In the late 1960s, Vice President Spiro Agnew used the phrase “effete snobs” to characterize establishment elites who considered themselves so superior that others should kowtow to their demands and opinions. Agnew was roundly criticized for this unfavorable description of the self-anointed powers inside the Beltway. On the other hand, Hillary Clinton was not criticized when she sarcastically dismissed Trump supporters, those residents of America’s...

Donald Trump thundered to Americans, "I am your voice," as he accepted the Republican presidential nomination this summer. As president, he'll find that Washington has a way of shouting back — even to the point of drowning him out. The seat of the federal government is teeming with interest groups, corporate lobbyists and big-money super PACs. They will have some different goals than Trump and wide swaths of his voters, particularly on matters of government ethics and trade deals. There's comparatively little in place to pressure lawmakers to follow Trump's lead.

Military officials told NBC News that the unreleased images showed US Soldiers severly beating an Iraq prisoner nearly to death, having sex with a female Iraqi prisoner, and acting 'inappropriately with a dead body.'