Trump's Motte-and-Bailey Presidency

Originally published at: Trump’s Motte-and-Bailey Presidency - TPM – Talking Points Memo

It’s difficult to imagine anything more perverse, authoritarian, diseased or corrupt than the immediate push to back President Trump’s “ballroom” as a response to security failures revealed in the shooting incident at the White House Correspondents Dinner. It involves so many overlapping bad ideas, bad motives and even bad people that it requires a some…