Chaos Compounded
Chaos Compounded So much damage, so little time Dan Rather and Team Steady Mar 7 Credit: Getty Images Just over six weeks. That’s how long Donald Trump has been dismantling the foundations of democracy. Forty-five days is not a measure of time we normally associate with nostalgia, but many Americans I hear from are longing for the days B.C. — before chaos. The definition of chaos is complete disorder and confusion. That defines Trump’s governing style to a T. He said he wanted to be a disrupter. Well, we have to give him that one. But a disrupter to what end? With no discernible endgame, the rules keep changing. He imposes tariffs on our biggest and most important trading partners; then 24 hours later he suspends some of them but only for a month. He gives Elon Musk carte blanche to do whatever he wants to the federal workforce. But according to Politico , Trump told his Cabinet in a meeting today that they were responsible for their departments and Elon Musk could only ...