I don’t want to seem wise after the event but I did suggest some months ago that Trump may not be as disastrous as first feared because his incompetence and divisiveness may mean he can’t do anything, this does seem to be coming to pass as I’m not sure he’s actually passed any legislation that is not easily reversible.
Incidentally, is their any metric by which to measure his attrition rate amongst his central staff? It certainly feels like he’s got through a lot of people but how does it stack up against previous administrations?
I have my doubts. I think all Trump’s doing is lowering the bar. Even if Trump remains the gold standard for unacceptable presidential behavior, future Presidents will be able to behave worse because of his precedent.
Then that is indeed bad news, over here in the UK we don’t necessarily get chapter and verse on all that, it really focuses on Trump, his idiocy and his failure to get his big ticket items through.
He is absolutely destroying the regulatory agencies. If the EPA and FDA go down, reversing those trends will take decades. It takes a lot longer to hire good scientists than to fire and/or intimidate them, and it takes A LOT longer to clean up an oil spill than to make one. I don’t know as much about the State Department, but it looks like the same process is happening there, and diplomacy is at least as hard to restore as clean water.