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Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/Reuters Politics as theatre. Celebrity as currency. Wellness as religion. And power as the only real language in the room. Subscribe to PRIMAL SCREAM with Joanna Coles on Substack for exclusive news, reviews and commentary. Recently on the “Inside Trump’s Head” podcast, my brilliant if occasionally belligerent co-host Michael Wolff argued that it was a waste of breath to talk about the 25th Amendment because Donald Trump has surrounded himself with loyal allies who would never bring him down. I replied that back in the Nineties, people in the United Kingdom had said the same thing about Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher . I started to tell the story of her fall from power when Michael cut me off, insisting that it would never happen to Trump , so it wasn’t worth discussing. But several viewers commented on YouTube that they would like to hear what happened to Mrs T, so I will tell the story here, because it’s a fine illustration of how power always looks impregnable, right before it isn’t. Or as Mike Campbell, when asked how he went bankrupt in Ernest Hemingway ’s The Sun Also Rises , put it: “Two ways: gradually and then suddenly.” Read more at The Daily Beast.
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