Matthew Yglesias suggests that Canada and Mexico and others call Trump's bluff on tariffs. It would cause short term economic pain but in a patriotic cause for those two governments to stand up to bullying from Washington. Trump's behavior with the first "round" of tariffs suggests that he is very sensitive to the stock market and the stock market hates the tariffs.
Paul Krugman notes that Elon Musk's allegations of massive fraud in the government that the Elon Youth have uncovered is almost certainly 100% bullshit. If he had actual evidence of fraud, he would lay it out. He doesn't, so he merely asserts that it exists and counts on a compliant court media to amplify it while real news struggles to bothsides it.
The connective point is that everything that Trump, Musk and their swarms of fascist helpers are trying to do is built on sand. There is a tendency - and I share it - to throw up one's hands when confronted with the gibbering incoherence and ignorance of broad swaths of the American electorate. Reality, however, ultimately does have the last word.
Musk's bizarre appearance in the Oval Office has to rankle Trump somewhat. If Musk crashes part of the government that people actually depend upon, the ensuing wreckage will land on Trump, too.
The speed of Project 2025 has always been because the agenda is unpopular and largely unworkable.
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