Declaring victory . . .
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 2:53 pm
From a NYT piece on the Mexican tariff - border protection farce. I do like how it is phrased.
All this was just the latest demonstration that, personal branding to the contrary, the president is terrible at making deals. What he’s good at is what might be called deal theater — made-for-TV melodramas with self-generated crises, over-the-top demands, and suspenseful arbitrary deadlines. The point of these exercises isn’t to solve a problem, but to pacify Trump with the illusion that he is winning so that he doesn’t feel the need to break anything.
