What a Failed Trump Administration Looks Like

[CousinIT]

I still have trouble seeing how the Trump administration survives a full term. Judging by his Thursday press conference, President Trump’s mental state is like a train that long ago left freewheeling and iconoclastic, has raced through indulgent, chaotic and unnerving, and is now careening past unhinged, unmoored and unglued.

Trump’s White House staff is at war with itself. His poll ratings are falling at unprecedented speed. His policy agenda is stalled. F.B.I. investigations are just beginning. This does not feel like a sustainable operation.

On the other hand, I have trouble seeing exactly how this administration ends. Many of the institutions that would normally ease out or remove a failing president no longer exist.

There are no longer moral arbiters in Congress like Howard Baker and Sam Ervin to lead a resignation or impeachment process. There is no longer a single media establishment that shapes how the country sees the president. This is no longer a country in which everybody experiences the same reality.

. . .

The likelihood is this: We’re going to have an administration that has morally and politically collapsed, without actually going away. . .

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/opinion/what-a-failed-trump-administration-looks-like.html

[uppityperson]

1. "going to have"? K&R

[CousinIT]

2. 'without actually going away' - due to spineless, cajones-less CONgress & FBI

Repubs will not cross their little rubber-stamping monkey.