OPINION: Actually, the most insane thing about ‘stable genius’ Trump may be his policies | Will Bunch
Indeed, exactly one week into the new year (only 51 more to go!), the hardest part about writing a column about the escalating political bombogenesis in
Let's quickly review. It's impossible to understate the peril to the nearly 242-year-old American Experiment right now -- the greatest since ...Watergate,
There are serious, legitimate questions about whether Trump has the mental capacity to serve as president. The questions about Trump's personality -- his extreme narcissism, his inability to focus in meetings, his refusal to read or to understand the basics of how American government or even the presidency is supposed to work -- and whether, at age 71, his mind is showing signs of deterioration have gone from a whisper to a scream with the publication of the Wolff tome. Trump's Twitter defense that he's a "stable genius" who is "like, really smart" only made matters worse.
It's especially noteworthy how many Trump insiders describe POTUS 45 as a "moron" or an "idiot," with an f-bomb for good measure. The veteran political observer
Rather than address Trump's unfitness,
The push by Trump to hire power attorneys to try to squelch the publication of a book (Wolff's) because he doesn't like it probably falls into the
But here's the thing. The understandable drama over the potential threats posed by Trump's presidency -- nuclear war with
Let's look at a few things that have happened just since
Offshore drilling. After the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the
As part of a seeming crusade to reverse any regulation with "Obama" branding, Team Trump is undoing the anti-spill regs and has unveiled a plan to allow offshore drilling pretty much everywhere in
Marijuana. Trump's attorney general,
Segregation in public housing. It's shocking that we're even still talking about this issue -- on the 40th anniversary of the passage of the landmark 1968 Fair Housing Act, in the aftermath of Dr.
The harm caused by these Trump policy reversals isn't hypothetical but real -- and proof that, even as Trump himself chugs Diet Cokes and spends much of his day watching the
These policy moves are also wildly unpopular. More than six out of 10 Americans want stronger environmental protections and restrictions on oil drilling -- the polar opposite of what has happened under Trump. And do you want to know what's even more popular? The legalization of marijuana. It's backed not just by 64 percent of Americans, but even by a majority of
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