New Yorker: Major, major trouble ahead for Trump's political projects.

[DetlefK]

http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/donald-trumps-crisis-of-legitimacy

According to Bloomberg, Mnuchin also told his staff that they should look ahead and focus on the Administration’s economic agenda, particularly tax cuts. But in order to get any trade or tax legislation through Congress, the White House will need the overwhelming support of Republicans in Congress, which Trump is endangering by equating shaved-headed white supremacists carrying Nazi flags with the protesters who sought to block their way, and also by his repeated attacks on individual G.O.P.ers, including McConnell and Flake. “Trump is using the precious capital of the bully pulpit to talk about confederate monuments in between savage attacks on fellow Republicans,” Holmes, the former aide to McConnell, told Politico Playbook. “Just think about that. Not tax reform. Not repeal and replace. Not North Korean nuclear capabilities. No focused critiques on extremely vulnerable Democrats who have opposed him at every possible turn.”

Of course, it would be wishful thinking to suggest that the Republican Party establishment is preparing to make a decisive break with Trump.

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But, even assuming that Trump will survive this latest horror show, as he has survived many previous ones, his Presidency will be further diminished and tarnished. Outside the arena of national security, the Presidency is a weak office; to get anything substantial done, the person in the Oval Office has to put together coalitions, bringing along powerful people and interest groups. As the health-care fiasco demonstrated, Trump wasn’t very good at that stuff to begin with—forgive the understatement—and he has just greatly compounded his difficulties. By dint of his pigheadedness, or prejudice, or both, he has moved onto political ground that makes it virtually impossible for other people in influential positions, such as C.E.O.s, or the heads of other organizations, or senior government officials, or celebrities, or even his own Cabinet members, to stand with him, or even to be seen to coöperate with him. That is what happens when a President throws away his own legitimacy.

[Me.]

1. "most Republicans are too intent on pursuing their regressive policy agenda"

Exactly...regressive is the word.