Democratic Party Reflects?

[Rajoo]

Here is a very good column.

Donald Trump Is Already Starting to Fail

With Trump, the dynamic is different. He’s so consumed with his grievances and his base’s grievances that rather than there being a tug of war between activists and pragmatists for the politician’s attention, the activists and the politician are both aligned against the pragmatists.

That was the clear direction of Trump’s first term. At first he surrounded himself with serious people. Think of the contrast, for example, between Jim Mattis as secretary of defense and Pete Hegseth, or between Alex Azar, the secretary of health and human services for most of Trump’s first term, and an anti-vax conspiracy theorist like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

But the serious people told him no. They tried to block his worst instincts. So they were purged.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...z-hegseth.html