The shift from the high stage of world politics to the small rooms of the White House shows where a leader’s public image meets their private behavior. While the world watched the president’s big moves, the workers inside the building—as written by official Miles Taylor in his 2023 book Blowback—saw something different. They described a place filled with rude comments about women and a lack of respect for family and a breakdown of professional rules and the need for the Chief of Staff to remind the president how to act. Continue reading
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Trump’s Allusions and Delusions of Power
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To witness the current state of American governance is to observe the Macro-to-Micro Pivot, where the sweeping grandeur of presidential rhetoric collapses into the granular, often messy reality of daily enforcement. We are no longer living in a Republic of Paper, but rather a Republic of the Screen, where the Macro ambition of National Restoration is executed through the Micro mechanics of tariff codes and executive orders. Continue reading
Congress creatures of the swamp
It has often been remarked that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. But that, I fear, is a touch too harsh for a Wednesday. To be fair to our representatives, they do occasionally take a break from the arduous task of spending other people’s money to return home and engage in what they call a “District Work Period.” In the common tongue of the citizen who actually earns his bread, this is known as a recess; in the eyes of the cynical, it is merely a parade. Continue reading