John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY DANIEL LARISON IN CHECKPOINT ASIA
“Face It, Trump Allows Bolton Free Reign Because He Is a Boltonist Himself
“Donald J. has done more to lay the groundwork for war with Iran than any president before him”
I'm not sure what Trump is.
I'm not sure that Trump even knows himself.
The one thing of which I am certain is that Trump has a gigantic ego and not very much to be egotistical about.
He was frightened by the powerful attempts to unseat him.
He turned to various elements of America's Israel Lobby for support and a huge war chest for 2020, and he got them.
The price was appointing such vultures as Bolton, Pompeo, and Abrams, and he is stuck with them.
The price also included giving Israel things that were not his legally to give.
This is a man of no content, no principles, save his regard for the importance of himself.
He has achieved literally nothing anywhere even for his supporters, has alienated everyone else, but has never stopped making noises in praise of himself along with the lowest appeals against migrants and refugees and Muslims.
Those noises are compensation to his political base for not having built the wall he promised, and which he even promised would be paid for by Mexico.
