The New Republic
Why Trump May Not Serve Out His Presidency
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“If something cannot go on forever,” the economist Herbert Stein once said, “it will stop.” A logician would scorn this as a tautology, but it’s a useful one for contemplating all sorts of problems that never seem to end. Some things that feel like they can’t go on may continue for a very long while. The subject of Stein’s famous comment (at a 1986…