{"id":14318,"date":"2018-12-07T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=14318"},"modified":"2018-12-05T08:32:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T15:32:13","slug":"has-trump-governed-erratically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=14318","title":{"rendered":"Has Trump governed erratically?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Taken from an article in Spectator USA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, that\u2019s a fair description. It\u2019s partly because as a non-politician he arrived in Washington without the battalion of allies, advisors, and party flacks that a senator or governor would normally accumulate on the long road to the White House. Trump\u2019s administration is basically a one-man operation, with him relying on gut instinct and sometimes madcap improvisation. There\u2019s often a gonzo humor to it \u2014 not that the US president should be slinging barbs at bottom-feeding celebrities or jackass journalists, much as they may deserve it. It\u2019s like a picaresque novel starring a jaunty rogue who takes to Twitter like Tristram Shandy\u2019s asterisk-strewn diary. Trump\u2019s unpredictability might be giving the nation jitters, but it may have put North Korea, at least, on the back foot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most Democrats have wildly underestimated Trump from the get-go. I was certainly surprised at how easily he mowed down 17 other candidates in the GOP primaries. He represents widespread popular dissatisfaction with politics as usual. Both major US parties are in turmoil and metamorphosis, as their various factions war and realign. The mainstream media\u2019s nonstop assault on Trump has certainly backfired by cementing his outsider status. He is basically a pragmatic deal-maker, indifferent to ideology. As with Bolsonaro in Brazil, Trump rose because of decades of failure by the political establishment to address urgent systemic problems, including corruption at high levels. Democrats must hammer out their own image and agenda and stop self-destructively insulting half the electorate by treating Trump like Satan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Taken from an article in Spectator USA Yes, that\u2019s a fair description. It\u2019s partly because as a non-politician he arrived in Washington without the battalion of allies, advisors, and party flacks that a senator or governor would normally accumulate on the long road to the White House. Trump\u2019s administration is basically a one-man operation, with him relying on gut instinct and sometimes madcap improvisation. … Continue reading Has Trump governed erratically?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14319,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318\/revisions\/14319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}