Source: Gideon’s Substack
by Noah Millman
“Trump has this bizarrely durable ability to win by losing. He can be so appalling in his behavior, so simultaneously aggressive and craven, demanding to get his way in everything one minute then desperate for a deal — any deal — the next that one might easily forget whether he’s actually achieved any objectives at all in substantive terms. More often than not he does nothing but set his own declared aims back — and yet his domestic opponents, trying to block him as he lunges about, often wind up in such contorted positions themselves that with the next lunge he can push them over.” (01/22/26)
https://gideons.substack.com/p/it-profits-a-nation-nothing-to-give