Steve Benen, in discussing the DACA (Dreamers’ protection) polka Trump’s engaged in with the Democrats over the last 24 hours, as a side note suggests:
The only certainty here is that Trump seems lost without a map.
I think this is a bit misleading. Most professional politicians have a map, and they’d be lost without it, because the “map” is a plan of action, carefully worked out with specific goals, etc. So it’s not really surprising that Trump is lost without a map. The surprise is that he could prepare these maps and follow them and achieve his goals, reprehensible (or even incomprehensible) as they might be.
It’s his resistance to using maps that is confounding. Maybe he really believes his own rhetoric that he’s smart and doesn’t need them. But the evidence so far is he needs maps so badly they should be tattooed on the inside of his eyelids.
