Politics

I met my first civilian bully in the small Iowa town where I grew up.  A group of us who lived within blocks of one another were outside most of the year, doing everything from playing school in an old coal shed at our house, to afternoons spent at the swimming pool or at our small public library.  We also played softball and tag football regularly, and traded comic books.  Several of us also tracked Hit Parade sheet music and learned it, pretending to offer concerts in the park.  Pretty innocuous, except for the neighborhood bully who lurked on the sidelines or interrupted our activities or our walks by threatening us and impeding our activities.

No surprises in that headline because we’ve had trouble leap out at us at the federal level for nearly a year. There are so many examples to choose from, not only in the executive branch, but in Congress and the Supreme Court as well.  Following along in  the 2025 Project playbook shows us that, no matter how chaotic and illegal things might look, there are a few players -- Steven Miller, Scott Bessent and Russell Vought  come to mind – whose ideological discipline makes sure that the administration is sticking to the script.