As Trump swings into his campaign mode he is becoming even more uncontrolled, erratic and inconsistent. His campaign speeches more and more resemble tent revival meetings with overtones of hallucinogenic drugs. Is early morning tweets become more and more preposterous. He also claims more and more to have made incredible deals when it is clear he has accomplished nothing.
The usual suspects in the usual panels chatter endlessly about what his strategy is and will it work and is he only playing to his base, Etc. I think they are overlooking the obvious. He appears to be becoming more and more delusional and mentally unstable. I am not so naïve to think that the Republicans and the members of his cabinet are going to deal realistically with his behavior. They seem content to simply shrug their shoulders. Meanwhile, Trump's current mania is to reverse any regulation made during the Obama administration. It appears as though he is motivated to prove how great he is by obliterating all traces of his predecessor. He also continues to be obsessed with attacking Hillary Clinton. He is given credit for this being a diversionary tactic. I think the more likely explanation is that it worked during the campaign and he wants to live in the moments of the last campaign, perhaps dimly recognizing that he is totally incompetent in his job. He claims to be a" stable genius". Is pretty clearly neither stable nor a genius.
Those in a position to exercise some control over him appear most often to be either unwilling or unable to do so. Their remedy is consistently to try to clean up the mess created by Trump by verbal sleight-of-hand tactics.
Trump is our version of King Lear standing on the cliffs raging against the wind. We are in some sort of race to gain some measure of control in 2018 and hope that he is voted out in 2020 and in the meanwhile does not do Irreparable damage to the republic. It is hard to be optimistic.
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