David Frum interview...thought it was interesting...I paraphrased some of his thoughts in summary

[NowsTheTime]

(..not sure why I do not recall seeing any of his videos here)

Trump’s reasons for what he does make no sense.

No one in China is going to take Trump seriously that Trump is trying to contain them, he is smashing up the alliance system that is the only hope to contain China.

I see malignancy more than madness. Trump is delusional in many ways, but the the delusions are always in favor of Putin, in favor of anti-democratic establishments.

Trump has been doing a series of constitutional illegalities in the past few weeks to test the limits.

Life is action, life is decision.
I don’t think we achieve anything useful by standing back from the scene..stroking our chin and uttering some meditation about what America is. We should be looking inward asking what will we do if we don’t as citizens respond to these attacks on the legal structure and on alliances then things will be very very bad, but if we do the residual strength of the democratic idea is also very powerful so lets do that.

Trump is not isolationist, it’s not non-interventionist, it’s a predatory government.

The United Sates used to say invasions across international borders are so dangerous we will even use military to stop it. (think Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait) Every legitimate interest of the US in Greenland could be achieved by cooperation.
But for trump the predation is the end.

Republican party is more statist party, a much more protectionist party, a much less respect for the Constitution and rule of law party than it used to be.

Trump can lead this party in all kinds of strange directions it’s not something that has a kind of inner ideological, it’s more a leader principle party.

Many of the people he has selected for positions should be nowhere near positions if responsibility in
any well-ordered state.