__________
Klein: 'The White House is the Crisis'

Ezra Klein: The Trump administration is overwhelmed -- by its own violence, its own cruelty, its own lies, its own chaos. There is nothing unusual about a presidency being overwhelmed by crises. What is unusual about the Trump administration is that it has created those crises itself.

Not that unusual for administrations to inadvertently create crises, usually by saying something stupid off the cuff or trying to cover up minor things - Biden's and Obama's had plenty of own goals...

The 2015 movie Our Brand is Crisis was based on the 1993 book "The War Room" about Bill Clinton's campaign, and self-created crises permeated through his presidency.

What is really unusual now is that the crises are usually attempted to be avoided; with Trump it's the opposite - crises and chaos are organic, they're a feature, not a bug.

Doesn't hurt that "crises" justify the permanent "emergency powers" for tariffs, militarization of law enforcement, etc.