The Crisis Is Upon Us

A week of escalating news out of the Mueller probe is colliding with President Trump’s increasingly rapid moves to spark trade wars in Asia and Europe and most importantly with a foreign policy shake up the results of which very seriously threaten hot wars in both Korea and Iran. As James Fallows put it, the President’s new top advisors on the economy and national security mark a move from people who are at least plausible top appointees in their fields of expertise to true Fox News rule.