Struggling to Govern, Trump Faces Growing Republican Unease

[adrina]

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As fellow Republicans labored to repeal Obamacare this week, U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly swerved off-topic, escalating concerns in his party about his ability to govern the country six months after taking office.

• Scaramucci in, then Spicer out
• Boy Scout political rally
• The healthcare debacle
• The way he handled the transgender ban (and the transgender ban)
• Scaramucci's utterly bizarre rant and interview
• Reince out, John Kelly in - after Scaramucci craziness
• SOS Tillerson and NSA advisor McMaster unhappy with Trump
• Jeff Sessions. Ha. Yeah.
• Threatening Mueller
• Oh, and Russia.

"We're seeing clear evidence that all of these distractions are standing in the way of their ability to achieve legislative accomplishments," said Republican strategist Alice Stewart, a top aide to Senator Ted Cruz's presidential campaign last year.

"The president's management style seems to be to encourage factionalism among people below him. He seems to place value on watching people fight," Fleischer said.

Aside from sacking Priebus, it was unclear how Trump planned to proceed to regain his footing. With healthcare stalled, Trump has his sights set on tax reform with no consensus on how to proceed. Top aides are split on how deeply to cut taxes. It is the same moderates-versus-conservatives split that doomed the Obamacare rollback.

This is what happens when people who have no idea how to govern and don't like government try to govern.

 

[Nipples_Mcgee1]

Perhaps the American people can walk away from the Trump experience with some common sense realizations. Realizations like, government really shouldn't be run like a business, a self-loathing government is self-destructive, and pragmatism can be a virtue.

 

[Hypoxia]

Just about all Guppies have been removed from the White House, leaving Team Tromp intimates in place -- with no experience on how gov't works beyond bribery. Tromp was never a Guppy so it's no surprise. Gups and Dums are equally excluded. This'll be fun.

 

[jaF0]

This is what happens when people who have no idea how to govern and don't like government try to govern.

Don L'Orange doesn't govern. He dictates and gets flustered when everyone doesn't automatically do as he says.

 

[Disgustipated]

Quit acting like you're surprised that he is awful and that his supporters care that's he's so awful. They don't. You're not going to win them over.

 

[BotanyBoy]

This is what happens when people who have no idea how to govern and don't like government try to govern.

If they didn't like government ACA would have been gone.

Problem is a good chunk of Republicans love big government and they love using it to scam/oppress just like the DNC.

Like the Corporate Democrats (establishment) and the Bernie socialist (traditional leftist) the Republicans have their own sub groups that totally do-not agree with each other. That infighting, neoCon vs libertarian/classical liberal/conservative is what's going on.

 

[adrina]

Quit acting like you're surprised that he is awful and that his supporters care that's he's so awful. They don't. You're not going to win them over.

Surprised? Hardly. Anyone with a brain saw this a mile away. It's just coming to fruition and I am enjoying pointing it out. Elections have consequences.

 

[islandman]

They got him in to the White House, they should be the ones to escort him out.

 

[Hypoxia]

Don L'Orange doesn't govern. He dictates and gets flustered when everyone doesn't automatically do as he says.

His apparent leadership skills seem limited to threatening and intimidating. All vinegar, no honey, won't win many allies. But I wonder: Is this the real DJT, or only a performance to show the impossibility of Guppy-type politics? Gups have been the party of NO and FUCK YOU and DIE DEMO MAGGOTS. DJT's reign demonstrates just how well that works.