The Executive Order is political weakness at its most powerful. The spectacle of Donald Trump adding his Sharpie-stroke to the catalogue of puissant signatures confirms the United States’ slow but steady drift from a Romanesque republic to Roman-lite empire. Trump was supposed to be better, or at least different.
The wisdom of the day has it that the business of America is business, even when, as in healthcare, that business is thoroughly corporatized.
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