Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“The thing about Donald Trump is, he’s Donald Trump. Briefly set aside any old-fashioned moral considerations about Donald Trump’s low personal character — as a purely analytical matter, that low character is the most direct and comprehensive way to understand what it is the administration is actually doing. That ‘character is destiny’ is a political truism, but it is even more true in the case of Trump than in the case of most politicians, because Trump, being overburdened with an excess of self, has no political interests or values independent of his self-interest, which should be understood in terms that are only partly financial and in the main psychological. Whether as a politician or a peddler of knockoff watches, Donald Trump’s business is being Donald Trump. The notion that Trump is some kind of master negotiator is one of the silliest aspects of the Trump cult.” (02/18/25)