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Guest Essay

By Thomas B. Edsall

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington on politics, demographics and inequality.

The Trump administration has adopted policies condemning a sizable group of its core MAGA supporters — miners, firemen, manufacturing workers — to slow deaths from diseases that cut off their ability to breathe.

President Trump’s attacks on the regulation of toxic chemicals in the air and water, on strong vaccination policies and on rules restricting power plant pollution are part and parcel of what amounts to a killing spree cloaked as........

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