Subject: What a week
What a couple of months.

How much crazy can one old lunatic pack into 4 years? I guess we will find out.

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a newsletter that thought it was closely guarding its proprietary news-ranking formula only to discover that the U.S. trade representative just used the same exact one to destroy the global economy.

You don’t need us to tell you: We are in deep, folks. There is an internet dingbat leading purges on the National Security Council. There is a man talking on the Senate floor for 25 hours straight. There is a chamber of Congress shutting down because of a dispute about internal parental-leave policy. There are trillions in tax cuts, shrouded by a cloak of darkness, where the Senate parliamentarian can’t see them.

There is a president who’s gone and done it (pressed all the buttons to see what would happen).