C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
What a Failed Trump Administration Looks Like
“Trump’s 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.
Everything about Trump that appalls 65 percent of America strengthens him with the other 35 percent, and he can ride that group for a while. Even after these horrible four weeks, Republicans on Capitol Hill are not close to abandoning their man.
The likelihood is this: We’re going to have an administration that has morally and politically collapsed, without actually going away.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/...ministration-looks-like.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
Brooks is of course spot-on – particularly with regard to a Republican Congress devoid of morality and courage, unwilling to challenge a reckless, irresponsible, and unfit president the likes of Trump, for no other reason than he’s a Republican.
“Trump’s 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.
Everything about Trump that appalls 65 percent of America strengthens him with the other 35 percent, and he can ride that group for a while. Even after these horrible four weeks, Republicans on Capitol Hill are not close to abandoning their man.
The likelihood is this: We’re going to have an administration that has morally and politically collapsed, without actually going away.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/...ministration-looks-like.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
Brooks is of course spot-on – particularly with regard to a Republican Congress devoid of morality and courage, unwilling to challenge a reckless, irresponsible, and unfit president the likes of Trump, for no other reason than he’s a Republican.
