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15 July 2022updated 27 Jul 2022 1:07pm

The US’s new status quo

The 6 January committee hearings show how much Donald Trump has irreversibly changed the political landscape.

By Emily Tamkin

The status quo is the status quo – until it isn’t anymore. You may not remember when the old status quo left. But you look up and there’s suddenly a new world that seems as if it’s always been there, and always will be.  

This is what it felt like watching the US’s foreign and domestic politics this week.  

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