BACK TO THE NEW AMERICAN NORMAL.

Many hoped that the orange "fireball" might consider becoming less of a firebrand after his 100 days of chaos.   But no, in full Max Weber (Trump might not know who he is)-mood our charismatic president does not give his followers any respite. After having fed them "raw meat" in his 100-day victory rally ("Lock her up!" was the background sound), he has already come up with a "guess who's coming to dinner" (lovely Kim Jong Un and Duterte), found time to make some sort of publicity spot, sugarcoats his Trumpcare (even Socrates would skip drinking from this poisoned chalice), and "tax reform" (one page, large letter type). 

There is nothing wrong per se in meeting one's nemesis. It has been done many times, often with good results--Nixon in China, the Oslo deal--sometimes with none (almost)--Carter/Assad senior in Geneva. All those encounters were the result of skilled, tedious, patient diplomatic inroads. Trump is just a mad hatter with no chorus line since the State Department is a "gutted relic" under an accidental, almost invisible, Texas import.

It is hopeless. There is no way out of the reach of this deranged, cluttered arrested brain, this vice-president (with "mother"), and the unattractive, mostly men in some remake of Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.  Major structural innovations are avoided by sticking with the hard-core base, and by ignoring the skeptics who might otherwise only weaken the monolithic hardcore.

The Democrats look absolutely pathetic, being leaderless and devoid of a "bite". The Republicans were saved by a caveman, the Democrats look doomed for now because of their better intentions!   How ironic!

Does anyone has still time to notice the Syrian genocide ? After Aylan and Omran we have an other "poster child" of this tragedy. His name is Hadiel...his fame will pass...he carries the embarassing tragedy of too many to last or to figure in a White House or other "brief".