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1. Why do most Republicans (and some "conservative" Democrats) tolerate Trump, even if they can't stand him and his non-team-player irrationality and unpredictability? Because he is a useful idiot, who by his media-grabbing antics, which fascinate (especially?) his most ardent 24-7 critics, diverts the "opposition" press from seriously scrutinizing the Congressional attacks organized by the "right" (and from Wall Street) on the social/political reforms championed by some on "the left" (e.g., gun control, better educational opportunities, lower Pentagon spending, non-bellicose foreign policy, etc.). See also.
2. The planning/formulation of U.S. "foreign" policy in our Trumpian day and age has little, if anything, to do with foreign governments. Rather, it's basically about the reciprocal backstabbing of political appointees in the WH and the State Department fighting one another for influence over the so-called decisions proclaimed by the commander in chief so that they themselves can get whatever power they can grab in a paranoid, insular, suffocating, take-no-prisoners, "you're fired" politically-charged subhuman Executive Power environment that is full of itself because of its status in the sectarian, megalomaniac imperial capital (Caligula would have reveled in it).
But I guess Trump's minions (they change by the day) realize that, at one point, they must rely on the "experts" (see, for example, "U.S. and North Korean Envoys Work to Salvage Negotiations,"New York Times) if they don't want to make total fools out of themselves.
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See, for example, this latest news item posted on Facebook:
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"My instinct is that the Trump campaign never really colluded with the Russians because there never was an actual Trump campaign — at least not in any organized sense of that word. It was a bunch of relatives and hangers-on having random meetings with some vague hope of personal and professional enrichment."
--David Brooks, New York Times