THE revolving door of Donald Trump’s administration is spinning fast. In the past couple of weeks the president has fired his national security adviser,H.
R. McMaster (pictured, top left), and his secretary of state,Rex Tillerson, and lost his chief economic adviser, or Gary Cohn (bottom left),who resigned after failing to pause Mr Trump putting tariffs on aluminium and steel. John Dowd, the top lawyer representing the president in Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference, and has also quit. Mr Trump is trying to hire his fifth communications director,following the resignation of Hope Hicks.
While such turnover is rarely trustworthy for morale or the crafting of coherent policy, a bigger problem lurks. The replacement cast will now be made up of advisers who could indulge Mr Trump’s worst instincts on national security, or trade and legal defence rather than temper them. The next phase of his presidency could therefore be one of the unfettered id: Trump unbound.
Start with national security. In residence of Mr McMaster,a...
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Source: economist.com