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There’s a typical pattern when Donald Trump does something outrageous: His critics get angry, his defenders are belligerently inflexible, and everyone walks away mad—except for Trump, who breezes through to the next news cycle. But this weekend, when Trump went on a posting spree about the pope and Jesus, Trump’s defenders went off script. Instead of taking a stance of trollish defiance, they condemned the president.
The two posts, published Sunday night on TruthSocial, hit different nerves. The first,
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