And he is hedging his bets. Apparently the White House is now a satellite of the Heritage Foundation, a hangout for ideologues, demagogues, Islamaphobes, rabid deregulators, religious antirationalists, states' rights nutballs, Obama-haters and closeted oligarchists passing as libertarians.
The unifying point of it is to increase the concentration of money and power in the hands of private individuals who are already so wealthy they constitute pseudo-states. Accordingly the destruction of the federal government, the only entity capable of counteracting them, is their most important end.
For Donald Trump all that matters is the experience and the feeling of potency. The rest of it and us are not important. That right-wing think tank is a very bad sign. It means that Donald is fixing it so he has someone to blame if it blows up in his face, so he will be even more aggressively insane.
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