Trump’s shattered ‘mirror world’: American voters roundly reject president’s alternate reality
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- The Guardian US reports: “President claimed to have ushered in a ‘golden age’ even as prices soared and war dragged on – and midterm voters did not buy his looking-glass narrativeA new “golden age of America” is under way, …”
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