Would this explain a few things? You bet! As for me, though, I prefer Hanlon’s Razor in these moments.
James Carville made some news last night on a podcast with Al Hunt, lamenting the inability of Democrats to organize any effective opposition to Donald Trump. Trump’s flood-the-zone strategy for the first weeks back in the Oval Office has Democrats floundering, even someone as experienced as Carville. “We’re getting overwhelmed,” he told Hunt, and “it’s all too incomprehensible.”
True enough so far, eh? Carville credits Bannon in this part, who had said that a second Trump term needed to “flood the [media] zone with s***,” but that’s where Carville is wrong. Trump hasn’t flooded the media zone; he’s flooded the bureaucracy zone, along with the Senate. Trump hasn’t done the “mean tweet” media tweaking of the first term, at least not yet; he’s focusing this…
