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So It’s One, Two, Three Strikes You’re Out …

 Step 3. Zinke suddenly announced that Florida was “unique” and that there would be no offshore drilling there.

People, why do you think Florida is “unique”?

A) It has a Republican governor who might try to run for the Senate.

.. C) Trump didn’t want anybody messing with the view at Mar-a-Lago.

.. There is no doubt, even among many Trump supporters, that this is a guy who would change a major federal policy to protect his view.

.. The Republicans and Democrats came up with a compromise that ties protection for the Dreamers to a ton of nonwall security money. The sheer reasonableness of their effort triggered Step 3, in which Trump rejected everything, complained about the “shithole countries” and sent Washington into chaos.