Blog Credo

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

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Unitary Power

 Richardson' daily catalog of the atrocities is particularly redolent of flop sweat coming from Trump. There were a host of court decisions against him, including his precious ballroom project. He issued an Executive Order on mail-in voting that is just blatantly illegal and unconstitutional. He's floundering on Iran and the resulting economic pain it's causing.

All of this is to say that Trump's tight grip on power seems to be slipping. The ultimate sign will be large fissures between the White House and Congressional Republicans. I would guess that this would only happen after primaries are over and incumbents feel secure enough to distance themselves from him in order to stave off defeat in the general election.

April Fool's Day has lost its luster in a world with so much lying, but maybe some small semblance of reality will bring this nattering buffoon back to earth.

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