Monday, May 27, 2019

Trump as a "useful idiot"


E.J. Dionne Jr., "The Trump coverup no one is talking about: The emperor has no money," The Washington Post, May 26; on the term "useful idiot," see; on Trump as a 60s peacenik, see

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Excerpt:
“Normal” Republicans are regularly described as privately horrified with Trump. Trump is said to have engaged in “a hostile takeover” of the GOP.
In fact, it’s Trump who has been taken over. He campaigned as a different kind of Republican, and his infrastructure promise was a major component of his antiideological image. But on all the things the ideologues and right-wing business interests care about — tax cutscorporatist judgesderegulation — Trump caves in.