How John Thune Is Steering the Senate Across Trump’s Treacherous Terrain

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If you want to understand Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s first year in the job, consider three items that required his attention—or more precisely, in the case of two, his indifference—on just one day last month.

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First, as always, there was a recent Trump social media post. With the ghastly death of director Rob...