{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Kagro in the Morning - May 18, 2026","description":"They let Trump back into the country, so it\u2019s Chaos Time again! Greg Dworkin came armed with the usual roundup. As we mentioned last week, we\u2019ve moved from Special Election season straight into primary season. And we had one over the weekend. Who has primaries on the weekends? Smart people Weirdos! Like Louisianans! But there\u2019s more to come on Tuesday, and they\u2019re reading the early vote ballot selection tea leaves. Even when it\u2019s just a primary, it means something when the ratio of ballots selected shifts toward Democrats every single time. And Georgians have more than usual at stake in what will be, on Tuesday, a final and determinative general (but \u201cnon-partisan\u201d) election for their Supreme Court, concurrent with primaries for everything else. All of this takes place in the context of record, floor-shattering lows for Trump\u2019s own polling. He\u2019s losing ground with his base. He\u2019s losing ground with his coalition. He\u2019s losing ground on his issues. But there are still enough Republican primary voters to turn things his way in these early contests. Not that that doesn\u2019t cost him ground, too. Because yes, small though the number may be, recoverable Republicans are in fact changing their minds. The combination\u2013mathematically\u2013has got to be enough. So, about that weekend Chaos I mentioned: Jared Polis has done the dumb thing, and though defenses are being offered, it remains dumb. Also generally chaotic: we may soon be adding motor oil shortages to skyrocketing gas prices. And Kash Patel turns out to have probably literally pissed on the graves of our Pearl Harbor dead, thus proving that there is no bridge too far. Further proof: Trump is ordering the Treasury to fill a sack with taxpayer money and hand it over to him. And though that\u2019s pretty chaotic, it is actually OK, because he is demanding a patriotic number of dollars. U-S-A! We also caught up on some pre-weekend Chaos. First, the slow-leaking of Trump\u2019s humiliation in China, where he accomplished nothing. Second, more public lands shenanigans. By which I mean the ultra-wealthy grabbing still more public things from out of your hands, in order\u2013mostly\u2013to not even really put them in their own, private hands. They just own them in case they remember at some point that they actually have them, and might like to use them. (or not!) Instead of you. ","author_name":"Kagro in the Morning","author_url":"http:\/\/kagrox.libsyn.com","html":"