The Trump presidency doesn’t seem sustainable
But Trump himself is turning out to be the full-fledged disaster of our worst fears. He understands nothing and is uninterested in learning anything — not just the dreary substance of things such as tax reform but constitutional values, governing norms and the United States’ unique role in the world.
He sees things only through the distorting prism of an all-consuming ego. There is only one Trump instinct — “fight, fight, fight,” he said at the Coast Guard Academy — and one Trumpian dichotomy: friend or foe. He is impervious to embarrassment, no matter how blatant his falsehood.
.. Authoritarianism? Trump summarily fired his FBI director over “this Russia thing”
.. Trump met unapologetically with yet another dictatorial thug, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and remained shamefully silent as Erdogan’s security goons beat up protesters on U.S. soil.
.. No surprise there, from the candidate who urged his crowds to “knock the crap out of” protesters and as president reportedlypressed Comey to jail reporters for obtaining leaks.
.. derided Comey as a “nut job” whose firing relieved “great pressure” on him.