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    Virginia Heffernan: Trump circles the tanks and bores even the GOP courtiers

    by Virginia Heffernan, Los Angeles Times Jul 05, 2019 3 minutes

    Tanks might strike you as fierce and cool, or as nothing more than fetish objects for right-wing tweens and goggle-eyed "Armored Warfare" addicts. Either way, all Americans should agree: Tanks are singularly weird machinery for a Fourth of July pageant.

    Muskets, gazebos, little Shriner cars, sure. But, when it comes to Yankee Doodling around, brute machines of war are a downer - long considered too ugly, utilitarian, authoritarian and lethal for even our most jingoistic national holidays.

    Well, not anymore. President

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