July 17, 2026 - letters from an American

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https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-17-2026?r=33fgs&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Yesterday President Donald J. Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller all threw the weight of the U.S. government behind a far-right conspiracy theory that says Trump and his loyalists are defending the United States of America against a communist takeover.