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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, December 19, 2024

Musk And Trump

 Josh Marshall looks at the power dynamic between Trump and Musk, as revealed by the killing of the continuing resolution by the latter. 

Marshall and others have presumed that eventually Musk and Trump will come to blows, because Trump is not a guy to share the limelight. Musk is also just as mercurial and even weirder than Trump. I think that's probably true. 

However, I have real questions about Trump's physical state. Where he is? He looked like shit on the campaign trail, but he won the election in large part to stay out of jail. He achieved that. Why not simply cede control of the executive to Musk? Why not bask in the pomp of the office and let him do the work?

I guess we shall see.

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