Someone tell me the Dems are not stupid enough to fall for Trump's trap?

[Hugin]

1. The Trumpist MO seems to be remarkably similar to the...

Soviet (Stalin) Press. It’s his mentor, after all. Work all of the angles. Flood the zone with chaos until something gives and go with that. Never let a horrific crisis go unexploited. Manufacture a crisis if you need one.

It’s, of course, a very inefficient and costly strategy which played a role in the fall of the Soviet Union. (SEE: Chernobyl) It’s inherently unsustainable. Because nobody ever goes back to fix anything they’ve broken. It does get results in the short term and that’s all the goons using it care about.

What you say is true. A trap to force the Democrats to the table to get the debt limit increased. Also, another scenario, The High Maintenance Mussolini’s henchmen (he’s too busy golfing and jetting) may be trying to incite a protest allowing them to invoke the Insurrection Act and Martial Law.

There’s many plans afoot and all of them may be true. Simultaneously. The course of how this goes is in the choices the Democrats make.

My only advice is to play out every scenario three moves from the present. Like chess.