Matt Bai: “Remember…when President Trump berated leaders of his own party, in front of a room full of cameras, for being afraid of the NRA, and he vowed to pass a bipartisan bill that would make it harder for kids to get assault rifles?…. that whole thing went away Monday with a mumbled ‘never mind’ from the White House. Apparently gun control is really hard…Why go through all that when you’ve already gotten the headline you were after.”
”But we’re still letting this president perform for the cameras as if he were actually planning to govern, without giving nearly as much attention to what happens on the issue once the cameras are gone…. Trump was dead right about our politics over the years — too much of it became a tired kind of stagecraft. But that kind of stagecraft was almost always designed to sell an agenda. And that’s the distinction between a serious politician and a con artist. The latter only sells himself.”
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