While all of this [Trump-induced chaos and vandalism of the state] is both head-spinning and deeply alarming, those standing in resistance and opposition to Trump are learning in real time how to prepare for and push back upon his deployments. They are effectively combining quick and decisive legal challenges with community organizing and rapid response.
Throughout these challenges to federal forces and authority, one clear advantage shines through because it is baked into Trump’s pattern: His federal agents don’t ever have a clear understanding of their real purpose or mission, other than as tools of a chaos agent and his regime.
By contrast, the resistance understands its mission far more clearly: Protect the community, impair or reverse the actions of federal agents, and build local and political opposition strong enough to drive Trump and his cronies to eventually back down.
And if the pattern holds, they always will.
He doesn't have some diabolical plan. He just has what I'd call "brain farts" -- emissions that pass for ideas, policies, and directions, all largely smelly hot air.
Losing his new Middle East war to battered Iranians just confirms this.
There are individuals who he has empowered who do have plans. Russell Vought wants to decimate the apparatus of governance. Stephen Miller wants to Make America White Again (why does he think his neo-Nazi buddies would consider a Jew white enough?) But most of Trump's people are just clowns, and fortunately ineffectual ones, often sabotaged by their inept leader.
People will die but the people are both better and smarter than they are.
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