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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat a Failed Trump Administration Looks Like
I still have trouble seeing how the Trump administration survives a full term. Judging by his Thursday press conference, President Trumps mental state is like a train that long ago left freewheeling and iconoclastic, has raced through indulgent, chaotic and unnerving, and is now careening past unhinged, unmoored and unglued.
Trumps White House staff is at war with itself. His poll ratings are falling at unprecedented speed. His policy agenda is stalled. F.B.I. investigations are just beginning. This does not feel like a sustainable operation.
On the other hand, I have trouble seeing exactly how this administration ends. Many of the institutions that would normally ease out or remove a failing president no longer exist.
There are no longer moral arbiters in Congress like Howard Baker and Sam Ervin to lead a resignation or impeachment process. There is no longer a single media establishment that shapes how the country sees the president. This is no longer a country in which everybody experiences the same reality.
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Thats scary. The only saving thought is this: The human imagination is vast, but it is not nearly vast enough to encompass the infinitely multitudinous ways Donald Trump can find to get himself disgraced.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/opinion/what-a-failed-trump-administration-looks-like.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0
Trumps White House staff is at war with itself. His poll ratings are falling at unprecedented speed. His policy agenda is stalled. F.B.I. investigations are just beginning. This does not feel like a sustainable operation.
On the other hand, I have trouble seeing exactly how this administration ends. Many of the institutions that would normally ease out or remove a failing president no longer exist.
There are no longer moral arbiters in Congress like Howard Baker and Sam Ervin to lead a resignation or impeachment process. There is no longer a single media establishment that shapes how the country sees the president. This is no longer a country in which everybody experiences the same reality.
...
Thats scary. The only saving thought is this: The human imagination is vast, but it is not nearly vast enough to encompass the infinitely multitudinous ways Donald Trump can find to get himself disgraced.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/opinion/what-a-failed-trump-administration-looks-like.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0
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What a Failed Trump Administration Looks Like (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Feb 2017
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David Brooks, a complete and total fool despite this commentary, appears to think Bannon's swell...
NNadir
Feb 2017
#1
He is saying Bannon has a coherent world view, so did Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, et cetera.
DemocratSinceBirth
Feb 2017
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NNadir
(33,523 posts)1. David Brooks, a complete and total fool despite this commentary, appears to think Bannon's swell...
...though, racist CT nutjob though he is.
Of course, there's nothing wrong with being a racist nut job in the Republican party, as Brooks remarks show.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)2. He is saying Bannon has a coherent world view, so did Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, et cetera.
NNadir
(33,523 posts)3. From where I sit, there's nothing coherent in any of these figures you mention.
They all embraced alternate realities, everyone of them.