"Nobody Is Left to Save the World From Trump Now"

[orangecrush]

"From the outset of his presidency, to which he was elevated with barely any preparation, Donald Trump was surrounded by a protective cordon of advisers, as a child monarch might. In return for absorbing his tantrums, they would educate their unsteady charge, who would wind up, after pratfalls and drama, inflicting no more ruin on the country than a normal modern Republican president might. (Which, to be sure, is quite a bit of ruin). Somehow it seemed we might muddle through.

Now Trump is breaking through the protective cordon. The people who joined the government to save Donald Trump from himself, or to save the world from Trump, are leaving. Gary Cohn and Rex Tillerson are gone. Trump is reorganizing his legal team, mobilizing for war against the special counsel. And now he has finally cast off his most important minder, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, and replaced him with John Bolton.

Bolton is in some ways the foreign-policy analogue of his domestic counterpart, Lawrence Kudlow, the incoming head of the National Economic Council. Like Kudlow, Bolton is a true-believing ideologue firmly encamped on his party’s right flank, who appears regularly on Fox News to propound ultrasimplistic solutions to the world’s problems, which Trump can easily grasp on his sofa. Also like Kudlow, Bolton has given every indication of being personally committed to Trump, and has not condescended to him.

.....

"The great danger of a Trump presidency has never been the things that are the most likely to happen. It has been the tail risks — any number of low-probability, high-impact events that are far more likely to occur with an authoritarian buffoon in the White House than under a normal president. Trump has spent his presidency surrounded by people who were at least attempting to contain these risks — say, a constitutional crisis, or a meltdown of the international order. As awful and comically surreal as the first year and a quarter of his term has been, after Trump has taken full command of his administration, we may see it as a golden age."





https://www.google.com/amp/amp.nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/nobody-is-left-to-save-the-world-from-trump-now.html


It was entirely predictable.

We are now officially on borrowed time.

[marylandblue]

1. Actually, the last minder is Mattis

Once he is gone, we are done.

[orangecrush]

2. I edited

to be able to include the paragraph which really drives the point home.


Thanks!

[marybourg]

3. Great! The most sane person

in the room is nicknamed "Mad Dog"

[orangecrush]

6. Yes

there is that!

[HipChick]

4. Is he a 71yr adult or a child?

[orangecrush]

5. King Baby

(1) Often becomes angry or afraid of authority figures and attempts to manipulate them to get thier own way.
(2) Seeks approval to the extent that the lose their own identity in the process
(3) Makes a good 1st impression, but are unable to follow through.
(4) Have difficulty accepting criticism and becomes threatened and angry when criticized.
(5) Have addictive personalities and are driven to extremes
(6) Are self-rejecting or self-alienated.
(7) Are often immobilized by anger and frustration, and are rarely satisfied
(8) Are usually lonely even when surrounded by people.
(9) Are chronic complainers who blame others for what is wrong with their lives.
(10) Feel unappreciated and think they don’t fit in.
(11) Sees the world as a jungle filled with selfish people who aren’t there for them.
(12) Sees everything as a catastrophe, a life and death situation.
(13) Judge life in absolutes, black-and-white, right or wrong.
(14) Live in the past while fearful of the future
(15) Have strong feelings of dependence and exaggerated fears of abandonment
(16) Fear failure and rejection and won’t try new things that they might not do well
(17) Are obsessed with money and material things
(18) Dream big plans and schemes and have little ability to make things happen.
(19) Cannot tolerate illness in themselves or others.
(20) Prefer to charm superiors and intimidate subordinates
(21) Believes that rules are and laws are for others, not for themselves
(22) Often become addicted to excitement, life in the fast lane.
(23) Hold emotional pain within and lose touch with their feelings.

[Harry M Tiebout MD – The Ego Factors in Surrender in Alcoholism (Hazelden Educational Materials)]

http://aa-northeastwales.org/king-baby-characteristics/

Sound familiar?