The deal President Trump struck this week with Democratic Party leadership has sent the conservative commentariat into a rage spiral. Trump, snubbing the Republican “leadership” of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, agreed to raise the debt ceiling for three months. “Principled” congressional Republicans, in an act of true statesmanship, wanted to extend the debt limit past the 2018 election, thus making their election prospects easier.
Jonah Goldberg, a knee-jerk anti-Trumper who never misses the opportunity to display his hatred of the president and his contempt for those who support him, has weighed in on the deal. According to Goldberg, Trump's “obsequious” “cheerleaders” (readers and associates of American Greatness, for example) loved it. But “contrary to wishful theories that Trump is playing ‘four-dimensional chess,' the president doesn't really know what he's doing.”
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