If you want to see a prime example of the main stream media normalizing the crazy by forcing Trump’s chaos into a “rational” narrative, check out today’s New York Times’ “Bold, Unpredictable Foreign Policy Lifts Trump, but Has Risks.”
The piece does acknowledge that “[t]he biggest risk, critics say, is that Mr. Trump will talk himself into a war,” as well as “policy reversals, on matters like NATO, which he once wanted to mothball and now supports, [and] Russia, which he once saw as a potential ally and now views with suspicion,” but the stupendous fallacy behind the article is assuming that there is any policy at all. The article even refers to “foreign policy theorists” who opine that Trump is pursuing a “’madman theory’ of statecraft,” adding the cautious qualification,
Nixon’s “madman” act generally masked a calculated strategy, which is not yet evident in Mr. Trump’s approach. Nixon’s national-security team was better coordinated than Mr. Trump’s, at least so far. And even in Nixon’s case, the madman strategy worked better later in his presidency, when he and his aides were more seasoned.
Statecraft?!!
In foreign and domestic affairs, President Trump has no recognizable “policy” in the normal sense of an attempt to rationally achieve goals in the outer world. The only “policy” for President Trump relates to his inner world and is nothing more than: (a) boost Donald Trump’s ego; and (b) make Donald Trump and his family wealthly in the service of Prime Directive (a).
That’s it folks. Nothing more to see. Not normal.