Trump could have pulled the plug on the bipartisan, bicameral short-term budget agreement well before negotiations were complete.
So why didn't he?
By waiting, and letting everybody involved think they had reached a deal, he was able to demonstrate his power when he quashed it.
This wasn't a lesson for the Democrats; it was a discipline lesson for Republicans, showing just how little freedom of action they now have. Humiliating them, including house speaker Mike Johnson, reinforces that he alone is in charge, and they should do nothing but follow his orders, and must be ready to meekly change direction immediately when his whims change.
This defines a key early stage of an emerging dictatorship. And he will make an example of that handful of Republicans who dared to defy him.
Welcome to the future.
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