So, in a period of less than 24 hours: our highly-respected Secretary of Defense resigned, citing irreconcilable policy differences with the president; the Dow fell another 400 + points; Trump decided to withdraw half of our troops from Afghanistan; and Fox News and the Freedom Caucus persuaded Trump to change his position on funding the government, so a shutdown now seems inevitable.
It’s just another average day for Captain Chaos. Don’t say I didn’t warn you; this is what America chose during the 2016 election. It was inevitable from the moment he took office.
A few observations:
- If you had any lingering questions about whether Fox News runs the government, they have been answered.
- If Trump’s initial group of advisers was the “axis of adults”, will the new one be the “circle of sycophants?”
- Make no mistake–this is just the beginning. Trump is going to be focused solely on his re-election during the next two years, because it is the only thing that matters to him. He’s going to get more and more desperate, and his behavior will be more and more extreme. The “dictator on Twitter” is likely to become something much worse than that. The real question is, how much of the GOP will follow him?