President Donald Trump does so many big things fast that each one crowds out what was shocking only a day or hour before. It has been less than a month, for example, since he pardoned everyone who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but it seems like ancient history.
To his critics, this is what the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan meant by “defining deviancy down,” successively violating standards so a new normal is established far beneath what is traditional and recently required.
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