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Most of us knew this was inevitable...probably explains why Hillary received nearly 3 million more votes but lost the election do to a lot of racist voters in the South and just enough to hand Trump the win in the rural Midwest.
This will not end well. I can only hope the country does not go to rot...but, the fact that we put these clowns into the White House gives me great concern. Perhaps we have reached the tipping point. Perhaps the country is what we see happening in the Oval office: a bunch of selfish cry babies throwing each other and the country under the bus to advance their own private agendas.
We shall see.
...in full view of the country and the world, we are watching what happens when a president is elected on the basis of an incoherent and crowd-sourced agenda, one that pandered to white nationalists and stoked economic anxiety. When that same president is someone who has never managed a large bureaucracy and brings almost no close associates who have. And when some of the aides he haphazardly acquired a few months before taking office care more about their own ambitions than his own—whatever they are.
The West Wing right now is a place where the ground is always shifting. With the exception of two family members—Trump’s daughter Ivanka, an unpaid assistant to the president, and her husband, Jared Kushner, a senior adviser to the president—no one on Trump’s topmost White House staff has been with the new president for very long. That presents a sharp contrast with the teams around Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Trump’s staff is as unbridled as the president himself. His advisers came together almost by accident and by default. They exhibit loyalty to their boss in front of the camera, only to whisper about him (and about their rivals, often in vicious terms) when the camera is gone.
The Inside Story of the Kushner-Bannon Civil War | Vanity Fair
This will not end well. I can only hope the country does not go to rot...but, the fact that we put these clowns into the White House gives me great concern. Perhaps we have reached the tipping point. Perhaps the country is what we see happening in the Oval office: a bunch of selfish cry babies throwing each other and the country under the bus to advance their own private agendas.
We shall see.