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"It’s all just for show. Trump’s supporters get to see him being mean to foreigners, and that’s enough for them.
"In short ... mass deportations ... and the tariffs—again, so far—are following the script I had hoped for [i.e., a phantom menace], while still finding it annoying. Donald Trump likes watching TV and being on TV. He likes attention and an exciting script. But he doesn’t care much about details or substance, so long as he’s at the exact geometric centre of attention and gets supplicating phone calls from foreign leaders, and he can squeeze it all into a narrative that makes him look like a tough guy. And his supporters love this and are very happy with it.
"This fits a general pattern you might remember from his first administration. Trump has the ambitions of a dictator but not the attention span, the focus, or the attention to detail necessary to impose it.
"Alas, not everyone around him suffers from this disability."
~ Robert Tracinski from his post 'A Coup Within a Coup'
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