Trump Neurosis Thread

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So injunction after injunction being filed is just window dressing, so those with neurotic impulses head won't explode?  

The funny part though I can see both Republicans and Democrats wanting to avoid being held responsible, but FWIW Trump and his administration so far have no qualms saying they are responsible.

CNN did a poll 86% believe Trump is breaking the Presidential norms obviously his base loves it and the hard-core Demmys are aghast in a sea of red. I find it difficult to believe the Dems and Reps are getting together in any significant way on anything. 

If it got out it would ruin whoever the Democrats were and probably the Republicans to a certain extent depending on thier state or district.

Or have i become enthralled in the Kabuki theater of it all. 

I think it both is and isn't Kabuki theater. It's like if you're sawing down a tree, there's one set of muscles pushing the saw forward, and another holding it back. The system is real, and it has integrity, for what it is. It's not fake. One side pushes as much as it can, politically, the other pushes back as much as it can, politically. The courts are one part of the system that keeps those forces regulated, reconciling actions with past consistencies and legal obligation. Industry also is a part of that system, that's why Lockheed gives money to both sides, for example.

But it is Kabuki, in that I think both sides know that this is how the system works, and agree to the field it will play out in. They frame their actions in partisan opposition, often or usually in entirely fake ways, but they both have individual recognition of the larger context. That context is rarely admitted, in any public way that can be pinned down, because it would break the spell. And we are in a post-truth era of Democracy, where those worldview bubbles have become largely irreconcilable, and in fact as "real" as anything.

Anyway Trump certainly is breaking Presidental norms, in that he often lets the mask slip, in a way that many Democrats find incredibly vulgar. The same tendency also thrills much of his base who are sick of what they see as the obvious kayfabe of the left, so much so that they ignore or don't think too much about where his policies lead and what they represent.

Anyway you can see this "push too far then incorporate the pushback" philosophy, for example, in what Musk did at Twitter. It seems to be effective, even if you don't agree with the direct it goes.

I mean, does the Social Security Administration really need 57 thousand employees? It did at one time, but does it still today?