“The lesson is that Trump is a reckless person who has empowered sloppy people to make sloppy decisions. Sometimes those decisions backfire in a way that is high-profile and obvious, in which case he may back down after days of controversy.

Equally sloppy, equally bad decisions can fly under the radar, though. For example, substack.com/redirect/e…is not going to generate short-term outrage. In the short term, more people will just get away with cheating on their taxes.”

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