Source: The Dispatch
by Nick Catoggio
“Let’s say, hypothetically, that you’re a convicted criminal whose basic mental stability is in doubt and whose previous term as president ended in a failed coup attempt. How would you choose to spend the first day of your second term, apart from thanking the gods that you live in a country foolish enough to restore someone like you to power? What you might do is seize the opportunity to reassure the wary center of American politics that they were right to gamble on you again. … That wasn’t how Day 1 of the Trump restoration went, as you might have expected if you spent even five minutes over the past decade observing Donald Trump.” (01/21/25)