Susan Glasser: “Eight years after the first Trump Inauguration, we know the drill. He loves to drown us in outrage. The overwhelming volume is the point—too many simultaneous scandals and the system is so overloaded that it breaks down. It can’t focus. It can’t fight back. The distractions are just too damn distracting. Who has time to point out that Trump also promised to end the war in Ukraine and bring down inflation on his first day back in the Oval Office? And yet drones are still firing on Kyiv and eggs are still crazy expensive.”
“In the days leading up to the Inauguration, Trump’s allies promised ‘shock and awe’—fast, decisive, transformational action to seize control of the government and rewrite its rules before stunned opponents, ‘the enemies within,’ as Trump calls them, have a chance to react.”
“But, speaking as one who was in Iraq in those early days after the 2003 U.S. invasion, I’d caution against planning an assault on Washington that is based too closely on Donald Rumsfeld’s playbook. The insurgents may have hardly begun to regroup. But regroup they will.”
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