A bleak assessment from Andrew Sullivan (Who generally is considered center right)
"Two Perfect Months"
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/...dRedirect=true
".....let’s start with a real, substantive achievement. The Southern border is more secure than it has been in decades. Biden helped a lot with his belated executive orders, but reinstating Remain in Mexico and ending largely fraudulent asylum claims have been even more effective. In February 2024, Border Patrol picked up some 140,641 migrants between legal ports of entry; this February, it was 8,347. Huge success. And proof that previous administrations actively chose to keep the border open....
.....On foreign policy, Trump has in two months ended NATO in all but name, turning it into a protection racket, as the Signal texts prove. It is becoming clearer and clearer that Trump’s aim for Ukraine is to divide it between him and his closest ally, Putin...In economic matters, Trump is fast tipping the US and the world into a potential depression with a trade war as nutty as it is random. These tariffs are on, then off, then on again. They’re up, then down, then massively up, then suspended. They are deployed for “fairness” in trade and then also because of fentanyl and immigration policies. Next week, we get another big shock with the vaunted “reciprocal tariffs” against the entire world. You need a timeline and a computer to keep all this straight.
And even if you support a tariff policy, no sane person can defend the sheer impulsivity of all this.........The disaster this week with Mike Waltz’s astonishingly reckless Signal messaging brings it all together. This is a crew of bigots, sycophants, Fox News drunks and bimbos, Hollywood loonies, Claremont nutters, and uber-online edge-lords cosplaying as statesmen. But they aren’t even faintly serious — as Russia and China now fully understand. And their response to being found out was classic Trump: lie, lie, lie and call journalists scum. By any objective standard, this is a clown car...."