Andrew Sullivan nails it again:
itʼs the impossible reactionary agenda that is the core problem. And the reason we have a president increasingly isolated, ever more deranged, legislatively impotent, diplomatically catastrophic, and constitutionally dangerous, is not just because he is a fucking moron requiring an adult day- care center to avoid catastrophe daily. Itʼs because heʼs a reactionary fantasist, whose policies stir the emotions but are stalled in the headwinds of reality. He canʼt abolish Obamacare because huge majorities prefer it to any Republican alternative, so he is sabotaging it. He hasnʼt built a huge wall across the entire southern border because itʼs a ludicrous project that cannot solve the problem it was designed for. Ditto ripping NAFTA to shreds, which would cause immense disruption to three countriesʼ economies and ricochet around the world. Or attempting to ally with Russia against the E.U., as if Merkel was worse a threat than Putin. Or removing NBCʼs license, which it doesnʼt actually have, for political reasons. Or deporting 11 million people. Or pretending that climate change is not happening. Or a massive tax cut on the wealthy, and arguing, as Trump did Wednesday night, that it would create surpluses as Reaganʼs did, which, of course, Reaganʼs didnʼt.
These are not conservative reforms, thought-through, possible to implement, strategically planned. They are the unhinged fantasies of a 71- year-old Fox News viewer imagining he can reconstruct the late 1950s. They cannot actually be implemented, without huge damage. And so he resorts to executive sabotage — creating loopholes in the enforcement of Obamacare to undermine the entire system. Or he throws a temper tantrum because Obamaʼs Iran Deal is actually working as promised, and attempting to undermine that as well. At this point, the agenda is so deranged and destructive almost every sane senior member of his cabinet is trying to rein it in.
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