He's doing the same pattern he did with Canada- swan around making blithe military threats, freak out when the other party threatens him with serious shit, retreat to his tariff hugbox, then get his tariffs swiss-cheesed because special interests all twist his arm.

Over the past three days he has gone from "I am going to have my armies take Greenland and there's nothing anybody can do about it and if you say no you'll be sorry!" to "I'm gonna tariff you until you let me buy Greenland!"
That is a backoff. That is a *massive* backoff.

not only was this predictable from the moment he took office, it should have been expected. and yet a constellation of “serious” and “savvy” observers insisted that we were living through a realignment

I think there are people in the media business who want to destroy parts of it intentionally

I think David Ellison and Bari Weiss are not in that group - they dream of a centrist-branded Fox News and they are doing an embarrassing series of pratfalls trying and failing to make it happen