45 is being driven by his own internal demon toward more and more extreme ideas and actions. He is addicted to attention, and gets it by doing things that outrage a lot of people. He cannot stand any form of frustration, and becomes irrational when it happens (which it increasingly will do). It will only get worse, and that will happen with accelerating rapidity. His obsession with trying to intimidate the press, for example. I really anticipate that he will try something truly extreme, like having reporters arrested on vague charges like "sedition" in response to critical press coverage. It's not beyond the realm of possibility that he might try to provoke such social unrest that he can try to suspend the coming election, or civil rights or something. It isn't beyond the realm of possibility that he might suspend diplomatic relations with Germany, France, the U.K. or the E.U. in general. Or withdraw from NATO. The tariffs are only a beginning.
He may well try his famous distraction strategy, create a new controversy to stir up more dissension in the U.S., and take attention away from this current focus. How about he pardon's Dylann Roof? That oughtta do it.
We in the U.S. have always thought that our Constitution and electoral system protected us from such an unstable, malevolent fool obtaining the highest office. We have now been shown the naïveté of that view. I hope it hasn't been taught to us too late.
But I still think we will get through this morass. Unfortunately, even when we do, it will take a long long time to undo the damage.
caw
