We were still joking with the press about “Infrastructure Week,” as I mentioned earlier, because it was the perfect metaphor for a dysfunctional, broken, chaotic, and frankly crazy system. I could spend days carefully planning an announcement about a new administration initiative on opioids and then wake up at 4:00 a.m. to discover that the president had decided to get into a Twitter fight with Nancy Pelosi, threaten Iran, swear to impose sanctions on China, fire another cabinet member, or respond to some random book author’s attacking him (which would always, ironically, make the book a best
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