If there's one thing the past 4 years should have shown you, it's that "sensible heads will prevail" is no longer a safe assumption to make about the US governm

If there's one thing the past 4 years should have shown you, it's that "sensible heads will prevail" is no longer a safe assumption to make about the US government. I'm not being glib - we are now faced with a situation where the people in charge of the government are actively dismantling its own institutions with no regard for knock-on effects. Don't catch yourself thinking "Surely they wouldn't $foo". They absolutely would $foo, and $bar too if they could get away with it.