He's backtracked on many extreme positions in the last couple of weeks, and he seems to be bristly toward the ready-to-slash Paul Ryan faction.

Even so, he is a total disaster in every way. For example, will Scotland feel compelled to tear down the windmills near his property or face the wrath of the US government? The possibilities are hideous.

He is an exploiter in a party FULL of exploiters and now they will start exploiting each other. It is a FUBAR situation of epic proportions.

He probably started out as a man of above-average intelligence. But years and years of surrounding himself with sycophants and believing his own bullshit have taken their toll.

Could he make a good decision or two over the next four years? Possibly. But the same could be said of a Magic 8 Ball.

I think Ivanka is a liberal. She, and her husband, are the ones who will be telling orange what to do. Hopefully, IF my premise is correct, they can overcome the screeching jackals in his administration, and limit the damage to our country. I do not think that orange has the ability, or inclination, to make policy decisions. I've said this before, and I still believe it, he is cognitively impaired by something, either early Alzheimers's or a drug problem.

1 -Trump as the Executive Branch.

2 - Congress as the legislative branch.

NOW, as to Trump. As others noted, Trump only cares about Trump. He will do whatever he can get away within the parameters of the executive branch to benefit himself. No ifs, ands or buts. AND, we are going to be subjected to his free wheeling spats of insanity. He will influenced and manipulated primarily by Pence until such time as he gets tired of that, but we already are seeing how insanely bizarre the processes will be with his other hangerons using social media and what not to manipulate him.

It will be bad, overall, really bad. But fucking PALES in comparison to what congress is going to do.

Congress IS going to pass LAWS that SIGNIFICANTLY impact 1 ) Civil rights, all in their insanely counter intuitive framing of "protecting rights." The LGBT community and all minority groups are going to have any existing protections tore down and they will aggressively work to pass laws that attack them.

AND THAT WILL BE THE LEAST HORRIBLE THINGS THEY DO. They ARE going to pass devastating tax cuts for the rich that will fuck over the rest of us, and make no mistake, a GOOD PORTION OF THE IDIOTS IN THIS COUNTRY WILL EAGERLY LAP IT UP AND ASK FOR MORE.

ALONG WITH THIS, they WILL aggressively defund or completely eliminate programs supporting people who are in very tenuous situations.

ALONG WITH THIS, they WILL give away our public lands and let the dogs of commerce run unchecked through our environment.

ALONG WITH THIS they will fundamentally change our educational system to allow them to raid the tax payer cookie jar with no concern at all for the actual education of our people. THIS is the golden goose they have been breathlessly dying to get their hands on, with the early charter movements a tasty appetizer that has them ready for the full course meal.

AND, they will get their wish to turn SS and medicare over to profiteers.

Now, a lot of this will be enabled by him, as we are seeing with his picks for executive branch posts.

But, whatever he does there will hurt bad, but can be dealt with by a new POTUS. The shit they get done legislatively, we are going to have live with for the rest of our lives.