1. Our twin girls are almost two years old. Raising them has helped me understand tweets like this. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/814919370711461890 …
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2. The key to toddlers is they are always testing boundaries: earning rules of social behaviour & figuring out what they can get away with.
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3. Trump's entire campaign & post-election behaviour has been all about testing boundaries: seeing what voters & GOP will put up with.
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4. In adults (as opposed to toddlers) testing boundaries is also about establishing dominance: showing what you can make people accept.
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5. The only institutional force that can really check Trump is Congress (GOP controlled). So Trump has been testing their boundaries hard.
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6. The conflicts of interest, the crony capitalism, the protectionism, the Putin-love. All ways of saying to GOP "Are you going to stop me?"
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7. Testing the boundaries:https://twitter.com/albardach/status/814978502621413376 …
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8. With his Putin-philia, Trump is daring the GOP elite: "Go ahead, stop me." He knows they'll chicken out. That'll make him stronger.
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Maybe. Or, he might be just a transparent, cloddish crook, e.g. the "Opening Day" $1m fundraiser. We assume too much deep strategy
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Doesn't have to be "deep strategy" -- testing boundaries is his long settled personal behaviour, now applied to presidency
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