‘Dark Days Ahead’: Ex-WSJ Editor Warns Time is Running Out to ‘Apply the Brakes’ to ‘Trainwreck’ Trump

He has learned from his first term: He will try to dismantle civil service, overreach on executive actions, use the IRS and Justice Department to go after political opponents, disrupt international alliances, gut NATO, and embolden Vladimir Putin. There will be no Jim Mattis, John Kelly, or Gary Cohn to occasionally apply the brakes on Trump’s darker impulses. There will only be loyalists and second-tier sycophants.”

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