Strange Bedfellows
In the last 12 months, I’ve found myself rooting for Mr. FBI, Robert Mueller and John “Bombs Away” Bolton–and now I have to admit I’m impressed by Mitt Romney’s bravery.
Next week, maybe we’ll have Rush Limbaugh coming forward with evidence on some aspect of Trump’s criminal behavior. Nothing is too strange.
Craig,
Normally, I’d just laugh at such comments, and attribute them to you inability to be a good loser.
But, I realize that part of your obsessive hatred of President Trump and his supporters, has a basis in your expectation that a US President should merely be the spokesperson for a political party with a long standing political ideological agenda.
In your expectation a good president should need a solid network of favours and party allies, along with ideologically compatible cabinet colleagues.
Donald J Trump is both far more modern and far older than that 20th Century concept.
Donald Trump is a populist. His presidency has none of the burdens or restrictions of party ideology and philosophy you so crave.
In this respect he is far closer to the e4arly American Presidents who were for more pragmatic politicians. The early presidents busied themselves largely with immediate administrative policies and actions.
Trump dumps and replaces cabinet members or advisors very easily because he sees them as being only necessary only as long as they are useful to complete a certain task, function or objective.
He owes no allegiance to backroom party bosses. He needs no “political allies” because he is not a career political or a member of the Washington elite (swamp).
The President angers and and frustrates you because he doesn’t play by the conventional rules and customs that bind most politicians.
Oddly enough, Donald J Trump adheres strictly to the constitution, while ignoring the customs and practices of ‘swamp’ politicians.
As such he’s a bit of a one man band, relying on his popularity with the voters to endorse his actions and owing no one any political “debts”.
He can afford to ignore the polls, because he’s proven them largely wrong or irrelevant time after time. He’s buffaloed tough and very experienced professional politicians, because he knows the rank and file support him.
Just as his enemies think they have him worked out or pigeonholed , he confounds everyone by changing direction quickly.
For those who think of modern statecraft or politics in terms of ideologies, this must be very unsettling and distressing!