Opinion Columnist, reporting from Washington

Ordinarily, I love stories of obsession: “Wuthering Heights,” “The Story of Adèle H.,” “Remembrance of Things Past,” “The Caine Mutiny,” “Fatal Attraction,” “The Good Wife,” “Moby-Dick” and the new Gen Z horror hit “Obsession.”

My Netflix algorithm is trained to compulsively hunt for tales of compulsion.

But President Trump has reduced the grandeur of obsession to something pathetic. When you commandeer prime time, or try to, you’d better have something prime to........

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