Reasons

Trump is failing.

Again.

As Always.

He's ignoring the plutocrats as they run their playbook (Project 2025), and while everybody sees it, nobody can count on the Press Poodles to point it out except in this offhand, once-in-a-while kinda way. It's all but disappeared from the news cycle the last few weeks.

He just claims ignorance, letting the chaos explode, as he looks for advantage, and opportunities to cash in on everybody else's misfortune.

He broke from the Reaganites in a huge way 10 years ago when he started going against Ronnie's 11th Commandment - "Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican."

He has since frequently taken a giant dump on The Gipper's head by picking stupid fights with everybody for reasons nobody could fathom at the time.

But he was, and is, the president, and if that's how the leader of the party does things, then there will be an endless parade of self-loathing jagoffs who will follow right along behind him, emulating everything he does.

So why does Trump do this big tariff thing? Who the fuck knows? But he's violated the one principle held absolutely sacrosanct by every Republican since the beginning of the republic:

Don't fuck with the money

And that's not a bad principle to hold sacred. In fact, it's been a saving grace for Democrats who've been able to fend off most major assaults on FDR's New Deal stuff.

So where does this leave us? In spite of everything that so many cynically manipulative assholes have been doing to separate us from each other, and to keep us isolated in our own little siloes, I think more of us are starting to understand what those assholes have been up to.

By blowing holes in the plutocrats' schemes (purposely, or because he's just that guy who always fucks it all up),Trump is uniting Left and Right in opposition to him. Which in a very perverse way has always been the Trump Hallmark - me against the world. And even if others are doing things that help me, I not only have to take credit for it, but I'll make sure it eventually fails because with my delicate crystalline ego, I won't survive if people think any of the good ideas aren't mine and mine alone.

When you're the narcissist's narcissist, you'll eventually become both totally full of yourself and paranoid to the max. I think that's what drives his brand of madness.

1. How long will this go on?
2. Who will step up to take him down?