How the Deep State Ties Down Trump
President Trump has had his foreign policy hands and feet tied by the Russia (and Iran) Sanctions Act.
He now has been rendered “helpless”: in respect to détente with Russia —
gulliverized, spitefully, by his own party,
working with the Democrats, to empty Trump’s cons utional prerogatives in foreign policy – and to seize them for Congress.
Trump has been “rolled” by his military minders (Generals James Mattis, H.R. McMaster and John Kelly) on his Afghan policy: he has relinquished civilian oversight of this military expedition in Afghanistan to McMaster and Mattis — the former being the presumed author of the “new” Afghan policy.
The President was “rolled” on his foreign military prerogatives too – as Commander in Chief – by his triumvirate of military minders in the White House. The “civilian” leadership has given place to the “military.”
“President Trump’s highest officials remain committed, one way or another, to defending the global order the U.S. has been building since the Truman era.
That includes [Secretary of State RexTillerson, Mattis, Kelly and McMaster]:
These men share a disdain for the Obama administration’s retrenchment and retreat. …
They want to check the ambitions of America’s rivals, while restoring the foundations, both military and economic, of U.S. world power.”
A Zombiefied Trump
Here is the point:
Will the political zombiefication of President Trump satisfy the two party Establishments?
Are they mollified enough, to come together to agree on a budget and a new “clean” debt ceiling (the “ceiling” arrives on Sept. 29)?
And, even if achieved, will so-called “normalization” of Trump policies really take the U.S. back to the nirvana of “how things used to be”?
Ostensibly, “normalization” of Trump’s economic policy should be manageable:
Ryan and McConnell would need only to line up a modest number of Democratic votes (together with Republican foot-soldiers), to enact a debt ceiling increase.
But it may be more complicated – much more complicated than that:
Should the Democrats cooperate (and they will want to appear that they are co-operating in order to avoid blame for any subsequent Federal shut-down),
it will be only on the basis of “an onerous quid pro quo that requires Trump to give up the Mexican Wall; t
ax cuts for the wealthy;
his proposed deep domestic spending cuts, and
also to fund the insurance company bailouts that are needed to forestall drastic premium increases and coverage cancellations during the 2018 insurance (and election) year.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/08/2...es-down-trump/

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