Trump Trainwreck - Ongoing diary of betrayal and evil

[Bob Butler 54]

I'm seeing the Republican Party as fractured.  They have the rural faction, close to Trump and perhaps Palin, we might push the rural values and intuitive unpredictability.  Then you have the Republican Establishment, which knows what has stumbled along in the past, is blamed for the failures of the past, which wasn't able to push its own candidates through the last election cycle.  They are not exactly great at Republican unity.  In many ways, the early Trump presidency has reflected a power struggle of the two Republican factions with political skirmishes between Congress and the White House.

And now Trump seems to be jumping over to the Democrats on how to handle long term financing, and how to get support on disaster relief.  To date, the Democrats have been a solid block of opposition forcing the two Republican factions together to get anything done.  Now, suddenly, the Democrats are in active play.

Which is interesting.  For years Trump was effectively a Democratic sympathizer.  Is he still a Republican at heart?  Was the split in the Republicans just an opportunity?

I still see Trump as a man of impulsive opportunity rather than one who adheres to a long term plan.  Predicting Trump based on a single incident might be akin to commenting on global warming based on a single storm.

Anyway, things are getting interesting, as if they weren't already interesting enough.