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Michael J. Ard's avatar

We saw an interesting example of patrimonialism in the Oval Office today. You haven't once said thank you, etc.

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Doug Israel's avatar

Trump's style is bad news. His personalization of the office and indeed of the federal government itself is concerning. His lack of discipline ans general clownishness is both dangerous and deeply unbecoming of the head of state of the most powerful nation on earth.

But it's difficult to take it seriously when these Democratic hacks attack Trump because their own party and their own leadership is itself so deeply pathetic, unserious and downright wrong headed. Democrats have been undermining norms for decades. Indeed their actions and their behavior is what LED to Trump as a reaction. For those of us horrified by the Trump show and completely in opposition to the party that would try to get a senile man re-elected in order to protect their leftist rule, its hard to avoid the conclusion that we are in a lot of trouble. There is, as Adam Smith said, a lot of ruin in a country. But the thing we have here is so unique and so special that once ruined it's never going to come back.

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