Trump needs an enemy

[struggle4progress]

By Ryan Lizza 11:09 A.M.

Last week, a ..White House official shared a .. theory .. about why .. Trump and his team have been adrift since November: ... they haven’t yet learned how to operate without a single, common enemy — Hillary Clinton ...

Incoming Presidents usually trade in some of their political tacticians for experienced Washington hands when they take office, but Trump installed his entire senior campaign leadership .. in the White House .. where few .. ever worked before. In fact, one of the only senior Trump staffers with previous White House experience is Omarosa Manigault, the reality-star villain from “The Apprentice,” who briefly worked in the Clinton White House when she was twenty-three ...

The early results .. have not been promising ... Michael Flynn .. was forced to resign over .. contact with the Russian Ambassador — but, even before Flynn’s ouster, the National Security Council, which coördinates all American foreign policy, had become dysfunctional ... After four weeks in office, Trump is the least popular new President since the advent of modern polling ...

... “Is the opponent the media because Steve Bannon said so?” the senior White House official told me last week. “He can say so because he never talks to the media.” Meanwhile, other White House officials “have to take all the piss and vinegar” ...

http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/why-trump-needs-an-enemy

[global1]

1. It Turns Out That 45Pee's Worst Enemy Is Himself....nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. American Democracy?

That's a good one, for starters.

[TlalocW]

3. That's generally true of republicans

I remember an old political cartoon of three cavemen. One of them is standing off by himself, and two are staring at a dead dinosaur labeled, "Communism," and one of them says, "Dino no more fun since him died? Who we attack now?" and the other one is motioning toward the lone caveman saying, "How about Thag? Me hear him gay."

Republicans define themselves by whom they can defeat. Democrats by whom they can help.

TlalocW