The week Trump was the only sane man in Washington
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"Each day, President Trump rants on Twitter and raves on the South Lawn, all while insouciantly lobbing monkey wrenches into the proper workings of government by issuing executive orders, saying nasty things, and wantonly firing people with whom he lacks 'rapport.'
On
Thursday, the supposedly sane Washington establishment that has dug the country
into $21 trillion worth of debt even while gutting the nation’s defenses sent
Trump legislation adding another $1.3 trillion in spending. The bill was a
political and policy disaster for the president, who got exactly zero funding
for a wall with Mexico he wanted and was delivered a full plate of federal pork
to digest. And yet, even after threatening to veto it, he understood that
common sense dictated he had no choice but to sign it since it included
desperately needed military spending that Democrats had held hostage to their
domestic spending priorities.
“My highest duty
is to keep America safe,” said Trump Friday, displaying a soberness he got
little credit for and which Washington has sorely lacked. “For the last eight
years, deep defense cuts have undermined our national security . . . hollowed
our readiness . . . and put America at really grave risk.”
"But never has the logic of voters been on better display than last
week. Never has it been clearer that voters, in their wisdom, had decided that
Washington was so implacably devoted to immolating the country upon the
kindling wood of discarded common sense that only a man unafraid of defying
'reasonable' groupthink could save the nation." You can read
the rest of the piece here.
Keith Koffler (@keithkoffler) is a contributor to the Washington Examiner's Beltway Confidential blog. He is the editor of White House Dossier and the author of Bannon: Always the Rebel by Regnery.
