Comment by jquery
8 days ago
This sounds like typical NYT sane-washing. After the Signal fiasco I've lost all confidence this administration is secretly super competent but just refuses to let any of us see it. There is no big plan here. This is just an old man surrounded by too many yes-men.
There is also a camp of ideologues that don’t care if they implode the economy if they get to LARP the TV version of the 1950s. Imploding the economy might even make it easier to sell traditionalist politics.