This is exactly right https://t.co/3VxRfdwS8A

— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) January 25, 2019

Generally I like Sarah but she’s so prone to seeing Machiavellian strategy where there is none that she completely glosses over Occam’s Razor. Trump lost, this was an utter debacle for him. He had to free his hostages and suffered a debilitating blow to his popularity and remaining legitimacy. Now he may well be stupid enough to try this shit again, and if he does he’ll lose again, because everyone now knows exactly how weak he really is.