While we are in the midst of the Trump-induced market crisis, it would be easy to miss other developing stories, each of which would be worthy of plenty of handwringing in other circumstances:
- Trump is proposing to deregulate by fiat, thereby bypassing the APA. The left should take notice; in the unlikely event the judicial system permits this, it will benefit them in the long run.
- Trump ordered the DOJ to investigate, without any apparent cause, two members of his first administration he considers disloyal. That is an appalling, but completely predictable, misuse of executive powers.
- After the Supreme Court upheld a lower court order in a deportation case, the DOJ is either dragging its feet or outright ignoring the order. Consequences will follow.
- Trump is sending Steve (Dim) Witkoff, the man who parrots Kremlin talking points, to negotiate with the Iranians. God only knows how that will turn out.
Never a dull moment around here. . .