Trump was TikTok’s biggest critic while in office, but he has just changed sides at a time when both Republicans and Democrats are moving forward to require the sale of the company. It remains to be seen whether he has the clout to tank this bipartisan legislation in the same manner as the border bill. What can we learn from this experience?
Being both a principled reactionary and a Trump ally can be a very difficult experience, because the man on golf cart has a mind like a gumball machine (I think that’s a Mitt Romney line); he changes his positions based, not on ideology, but on personal whims, self-interest, and the identity of the last person who talked to him. If you want to remain on his good side, you have to be willing to abandon your most cherished beliefs on a moment’s notice, while vehemently denying you are doing exactly that. Not everyone can pull that off–don’t you agree, Mr. Graham?