Republicans continue to posture on "free markets" and "pro-business", yet it would be hard to find an Administration more actively interventionist or politically punitive towards markets or business than the Trump White House. It is statist and personalist through and through.

This is false. With a few disgusting exceptions, the mood there is dismay and horror ... as well as fear for what will follow.

Let the record show that the first thing the new "Department of War" did was threaten to invade an American city.