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  "textContent": "America’s 250th birthday celebration feels like a child’s birthday party ruined by fighting between two soon-to-be-divorced parents. What should be a benign celebration of shared, if slightly boring, values has become a fully partisan affair. In part, this is due to the president’s determination to make it all about himself. But the agita surrounding America […]",
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