Trump will sign most of what Congress sends him; but he is not really a Republican. He is not an ideologue because he doesn’t know anything, doesn’t believe anything, doesn’t care about anything, except about the personal aggrandizement of Donald Trump. Republicans and conservatives who opposed him a year ago have now embraced him as a useful idiot. If/when he’s no longer useful, they will bail on him. As he breaks promises, and worse if he keeps them, he will hurt millions of people. Folks who supported him may finally acknowledge how ignorant, reckless, and dangerous he is, at which point the professional Republicans will gladly chase him from office, by encouraging his resignation or even by impeaching him. The wild card is this: there is nothing new in the fact that Trump is a racist, fascist, know-nothing blowhard. What is not clear is whether there is anything, even their own self interest, that can deter his supporters.

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