(This is a two weeks old but still, I think, useful.)
Watching the incoherence coming out of DC at this time there seem to be a bewildering number of policy initiatives which don’t seem to make any sense. This is because there are three different factions, competing, and they are all putting their oars in the water and trying to row the ship of state off in different directions. First, there’s Trump’s personal ideology of xenophobia, revenge, conquest, and betrayal. Second, there’s Russ Vought’s Christian nationalist Project 2025 coup. Third, there’s Elon Musk’s Nazi techbro coup.
