Bonfire of the Insanities

With the president who undercuts, insults, lambastes his attorney general, but does not fire him?

With the White House press secretary who resigns from his job only when he faces the prospect of reporting to someone he does not like?

With the White House communications director who tells a reporter he's planning on firing a staffer, then backtracks, then has the staffer resign?

With the Senate amending a bill that does not exist, while hoping that the finished legislation proceeds to a conference committee from which it does not pass?

With the White House communications director who calls a reporter outraged that news of a dinner with the president has leaked, who threatens to fire his entire staff, who blames the White House chief of staff for leaking his financial disclosure form, who uses an obscene metaphor to describe the senior strategist and chief ideologist?

With the president who is encouraging the communications director, loves the backstabbing and conflict and chaos, who privileges personal loyalty above all else?

There are too many options, too many ways to go at the problem. That problem is a White House in turmoil, a Republican Party that does not know what it wants on health care, taxes, and foreign policy, and a nation that remains as confused, divided, and incomprehensible to itself as it was on the day Donald Trump was elected president.

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