That was not an Onion headline—just a reflection of what appears to have actually happened this week as Donald Trump took a sledgehammer to the central pillar of his campaign in both economic and foreign policy: isolationism. The one HUGE asterisk here is his devotion to scapegoating immigrants, especially Mexicans and Muslims, for every ill that exists in our country. That working thesis seems to remain strong as Trump’s administration rushes to staff up on border security and unleash the most virulently anti-immigrant policies in recent memory on a defenseless minority.
With that gigantic caveat, the New York Times brings us a taste of just how lightning quick a consummate connoisseur of ignorance can abandon the ideals he never had in the face of realities he never imagined....
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1653144
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