Maverick's World

The deadly game of chicken between the Trump Admin and the GOP

We are all worried by the craziness we see happening in DC right now. President Trump seems insanely sensitive to the slightest suggestion that he is not legitimate. Given how he questioned President Obama's legitimacy - you would think he could handle this kind of criticism himself - but that does not seem to be the case.

I would like to offer a plausible explanation for what is happening in front of our eyes right now.

While President Trump has won the electoral college, and the GOP has won the Senate and Congress, no one knows if Trump helped the GOP win or if the GOP helped Trump win. There is no data to support either conclusion and consequently neither knows who wears the proverbial pants in this relationship. No common minimum agenda has ever been charted between these two entities. And the GOP does not trust Trump and Trump does not trust the GOP. 

We all know that the Donald Trump Corporation has something going on with Putin's Russia. In order to keep his business running smoothly in economically distressed Russia - President Donald Trump has to keep accommodating Putin internationally. That will come at direct cost to America's national security. In order to keep paying off Putin - President Trump has to keep the GOP led Congress and Senate from impeaching him or defeating his initiatives.

The GOP for its part does not know what politically toxic agenda Donald Trump will try to tie to their tail. They have no choice but to resist him or risk becoming an irrelevant clone of the rubber stamping Russian Duma. The GOP senators and congressmen are focused on their own re-election and not on the greater glory of Donald Trump.

For his part President Trump is firing off all manner of presidential executive orders and trying to get ahead of the GOP. His rationale seems to be that he can seize the ground ahead of GOP moves. He is also desperate to get his "news providers" access to the White House Press Corps. He hopes to use the Cambridge Analytica based subliminal propaganda network to manufacture support in his base using his chosen "news providers".

The GOP is pressing the legislative brake and accelerator alternatively and it is reaching out self-proclaimed Nazis like Heimbach. This latter move is most likely an attempt to subvert elements of the DJT fan base and fill their heads with idiotic ideas of greatness. In this fashion the GOP will try to use them to create fission between the Kushner clan and the neo-Nazis aligned with Bannon. That fission will weaken the Trump administration significantly.

We are seeing this clash of the Titans play out in front of our eyes.

Whether it is about Obamacare/Affordable Care Act Repeal, or Climate Change, or Muslim Ban, or Abortion or  CIA Torture Camps, or dismembering the NATO or pulling out of the UN, both President Trump and the GOP know that such an action will be catastrophic to US national interests - however they are going to push all these bad ideas along as part of a very messed up game of chicken.

Whoever backs down or blinks in this game loses the political imperative. If President Trump blinks he will be the GOP's bitch for the rest of his life. If the GOP blinks, they will become President Trump's little toy forever.

Neither side can afford to back down and they are going to keep pressing the accelerator until the metaphorical car crash occurs.

This is not good from the perspective of ordinary citizens like us.

Even those of you that voted from Donald Trump the candidate should realize the extreme danger we are all in right now. In this fight for supremacy - we will all be thrown under the bus.

posted by maverick @ 5:35 AM