More and more often, I wonder if anyone has any actual goals they consider more important than demonstrating their contempt for the other half of the country.
The Trump administration has featured a succession of little battles between the establishment and the Trump people -- between #MAGA and #Resist. But none are quite as odd as the one playing out at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which as of Tuesday morning has two acting directors.
The battle for supremacy between two claimants, each asserting that theirs is the true right to rule, is something we associate more with medieval kingdoms than modern bureaucratic democracies.