The View from Afar 0
Via the Las Vegas Sun, Jackie Calmes reports that she recently had occasion to go abroad. From the perspective of distance and away from 24-hour relentless cycle of headlines, she found a renewed perspective on the Trump maladministration. Here’s her list of things that stood out; follow the link for a detailed exploration of each one.
- His embarrassing and willfully provocative obsession with branding things, buildings (even adding his name to a memorial of a slain president!), bodies of water and now states.
- His antidemocratic refusal, despite his oath, to be president of all Americans.
- His pathological narcissism and companion sense of monarchical entitlement.
- His anti-constitutional undermining of a free press.
- The top-down model of incompetence and corruption in Trump’s administration.
- Trump’s traitorous bear-hug of Russia and betrayal of Ukraine, U.S. allies and the 80-year-old world order that is among the proudest legacies of the United States.
