Shades of the Nixon enemies list, Trump is now seeking to muster coordinated messaging which continues to be a fleeting goal considering that Trump himself seems to negate the ham-fisted attempts to project leadership. Trying to replicate an election campaign’s rapid response to expected subpoenas will be a fool’s errand, but the WH has the fools for it.
Then again, he’s getting a bit more thin-skinned… and bringing back Corey Lewandowski only doubles down on the same reactionary figures who might be useful to attack detractors but justice might not get as good a hearing.
More interesting is that someone in charge of Trump’s cellphone (Hope Hicks?) is now reading his replies and more importantly managing it by blocking folks.
Of course, The Return of the War Room might have been a much different film if some of its featured stars had accomplished once more what they pulled off back then: nominating a Clinton. Except that in 2008 the gods of irony put them on the wrong side of a divide that somebody once perfectly crystallized on a whiteboard: "change versus more of the same." This election cycle saw the ascendance of the second “once-in-a-generation” political talent in our generation. By definition, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has broken the cycle of the War Room culture associated with various Clintons and Bushes. As a result, The Return of the War Room arrives at a moment that feels very much like the fall of 1992 when the Democratic candidate found himself on the cusp of an historic victory and a turn-the-page presidency.