Trump's Presidency Is Shaping Up to Be an American Tragedy

[RKP5637]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/trumps-presidency-is-shaping-up-to-be-an-american-tragedy-w454640

What happens next is anyone's guess. But here's what we do know.

We know Trump has named as his chief counselor a man who runs a website read and appreciated by the most virulent racists in America, a man who, according to court documents, told his wife he didn't want his children going to school with Jews and who reportedly thought it would be "not such a bad thing" if fewer African-Americans voted.

We know Trump named as his national security adviser a man who, days before the election, promulgated a conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton and sex crimes with children. (But not "Pizzagate," yet another conspiracy theory involving Clinton and child sex crimes – it was Flynn's son and chief of staff who tweeted about that one.) We also know that national security adviser called Islam a "political ideology" and said the religion is like a "malignant cancer."

We know Trump nominated for attorney general a man the Senate refused to confirm as a federal judge for being too racist in 1986, a year when it was still openly debated whether apartheid was all that bad.
We know he appointed a secretary of housing and urban development who knows nothing about housing or urban development. We know he appointed an education secretary who has made it her life's work to dismantle her state's public school system. We know he's appointed a Treasury secretary who foreclosed on thousands of homes during the housing crisis.

We know he's appointed an EPA administrator who has sued the EPA to stop it from protecting the environment and bragged that he's a "leading advocate against the EPA's activist agenda."

We know he's inexperienced and ignorant enough to cause genuine harm to America's interests. Trump's recent call with Taiwan's leader caused a genuine international furor. He endorsed the campaign of extrajudicial murder the president of the Philippines launched against his country's drug trade. These are irresponsible actions with real consequences.

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1. Actually I am glad he is doing this

I want his new administration to be so screwed up, that just about everyone will backtrack in the next election. I want everyone to see just how evil these people are. Right now, many are still blinded by the circus that just came thru and won.

The scariest thing for me is any semblance of success. If he has that, well, four more years would come and THAT would be the final nail.

[RKP5637]

2. I just wish SCOTUS picks were not in the mix. n/t

[enough]

3. Just to add to the list:

Trump’s pick for Interior Secretary wants to sell off public lands

Rep. McMorris Rodgers’ nomination is more bad news in an administration that will be terrible on climate.


https://thinkprogress.org/cathy-mcmorris-interior-111c30319780#.rykbrf76c

Thanks to DUer Cattledog for posting this in an OP a few minutes ago.

[world wide wally]

4. Which word is most apropos?

A) Tragedy
B) Disaster
C) Debacle
D) Cluster fuck

[Useless in FL]

6. All of the above....

[Luz]

5. Frightening