This administration he has become the King of backtracking.
Cause big fire. Make it bigger. Blame someone else for starting it.
Put out a portion of the fire. Become the hero for putting out a corner of the fire. Fire continues to burn.
Maybe it’s a unconscious, unthinking pattern driven by brashness followed by consequence followed by sticking a finger in the air and reading the room better – I don’t know honestly. But I’ve reached the desired oversaturated-by-daily-What-Now? so I pay attention to fewer and fewer things and am more like “whatever.” about the circus. Been hardly following LA much.