"Not so much as an administration as a weird fusion of the court of Louis XIV and the Mafia"

[dalton99a]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/03/02/trumps-calamities-are-coming-faster-and-in-bunches/
Trump’s calamities are coming faster — and in bunches
by Jennifer Rubin | March 2 at 9:15 AM

In the course of a week, President Trump convulsed the markets and American business with a protectionist initiative which, if carried out, risks setting off a trade war; he scrambled Republicans by promising to back a bunch of gun measures he probably doesn’t intend to back once his aides explain that the National Rifle Association and his base oppose most of what he embraced; and he refused to empower his national security team to protect our election system against future manipulation by Russia.

Speaking of which, special counsel Robert S. Muller III is, according to NBC News, “assembling a case for criminal charges against Russians who carried out the hacking and leaking of private information designed to hurt Democrats in the 2016 election.” Even more alarming — given Trump’s invitation for Russia to hack into Hillary Clinton’s emails, and the attendees of the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower designed to get “dirt” on her — “one source suggested that a new indictment could include unnamed American co-conspirators as part of a strategy to pressure those involved to cooperate.” Collusion, in other words, may begin to show up in indictments. ...

Now, anyone who is surprised by the utter chaos, the ethical sleaze, the policy incoherence and the nepotism/cronyism was not paying attention during Trump’s career in real estate or during his campaign. This is how Trump ran his family operation, stumbling through one failed venture after another. This is how Trump wound up declaring bankruptcy multiple times. No one — not Kelly, Ivanka, Jared, the GOP Congress or even Hicks — can keep him on task. Trump is still indifferent to learning policy and is prone to prattle in public about subjects he doesn’t bother to study. No one else can make up for his lack of diligence, ethics and decency. This is not so much as an administration as a weird fusion of the court of Louis XIV and the Mafia, all built around a cult of personality that lacks any self-restraint or awareness.

Republicans who empowered him and refused to stand up to him have a giant mess on their hands — a dysfunctional government and a looming electoral disaster. Trump will either be compelled to leave office or will continue to spin out of control. Aides tell the press this is a new level of chaos. Don’t worry — it’ll get worse. It always does.

[pangaia]

1. Aides tell the press this is a new level of chaos.

THAT is the whole freakin' intent...

Wake up USA!!

[yurbud]

2. I would say Louis the XIV, a Manson family reunion, & professional wrestling

[BlueMTexpat]

3. Wow, what has happened to

Jennifer Rubin? She has been making a LOT of sense recently.