Donald Trump, Loose Cannon
How do you handle a president who doesn’t care about the damage he inflicts? Plus, Jonathan Bernstein’s morning links.
I really don’t care, do you?
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Yes, things are bad. No, it’s not a coup. And yes, there’s a threat to democracy, but it’s coming from the president, not his administration’s efforts to deal with him.
This all comes up because of the anecdotes in Bob Woodward’s new book about the Donald Trump administration detailing efforts of senior White House staff and executive-branch personnel to subvert Trump’s plans — even to the point of removing items from his desk — along with an anonymous New York Times op-ed by a “senior official in the Trump administration” claiming that “adults in the room” have “gone to great lengths to keep bad decisions contained to the West Wing.”