The Trump-Musk Slapfight

What an embarrassing spectacle.

   They've both done good things for the nation--Musk mainly with respect to Twixxer and free speech, IMO.

But neither one of them seems to have the temperament required to play such important roles in the government of the world's only superpower--or "hyperpower" as some characterize it.

   Trump's always been a desperate roll of the dice. He's right--extremely right--about a lot of things. And even if he botched the job--and thus far he isn't--he'd still be playing a crucial role in history by boxing out the now-virtually-insane Democratic party...

   But he remains--to a large extent, anyway--a loose cannon. He's largely kept it between the ditches to this point (to mix metaphors)...but it's not going to be a big surprise to anyone if puts us into a ditch at some point.

   OTOH, all he has to do to remain a net positive is occupy the office. Keeping the Democrats out of power unless/until they come to their senses is, I think, his most important role. And that part he cn't really botch.

   OTOOH, I think we also desperately need another Republican to win the Presidency in '28...and, of course, we need to keep at least one house of Congress--which shouldn't be that difficult. I still hope that the '24 loss will slap some sense into the blue team, though there's no sign of that yet. Maybe that's not all that surprising. Seems like the losing party has to go through a denial/excuse-making phase before it's psychologically capable of facing at least some of the facts. Usually this takes the form of an insistence that the losing party's ideas/policies are good/popular...but their "messaging" failed. And that's where the Dems are now. If they haven't started to moderate by next year at this time, though, it'll be time to up our FretCon level, I think.

   Trump's actual actions are generally good. But his words matter, too.