Krauthammer: The guardrails hold

[Pwns]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... 06c8baa32f

Charles Krauthammer on how the system is passing its stress test.

To be fair, Trump isn't sharp enough to dismantle the system himself and knows he will screw things up badly if he does.

Just sit back and enjoy the drama and silliness.

[JohnStOnge]

I said when he was elected that there was hope that our system would protect us from such a poor decision on the part of the people in the electorate who voted for him. And so far so good. The effects of putting a total buffoon with serious emotional maturity and stability problems into the President's position have so far been minimized.

[Gil Dobie]

I said when he was elected that there was hope that our system would protect us from such a poor decision on the part of the people in the electorate who voted for him. And so far so good. The effects of putting a total buffoon with serious emotional maturity and stability problems into the President's position have so far been minimized.

........and also protected the system from Hilary Clinton being elected. It was a lose lose election, with 4 poor candidates, but people still voted for them.

[kalm]

They won't let Trump read that.

Thank god we have the deep state to protect us.

Nonetheless, Trump, as a matter of rhetoric, repeatedly affirmed policy positions that were directly contrary to long-standing bipartisan orthodoxy, and his policy and personal instability only compounded elites’ fears that he could not be relied upon to safeguard their lucrative, power-vesting agenda. In so many ways — due to his campaign positions, his outsider status, his unstable personality, his witting and unwitting unmasking of the truth of U.S. hegemony, the embarrassment he causes in Western capitals, his reckless unpredictability — Trump posed a threat to their power centers.

It is often claimed that this trans-partisan, elite coalition assembled against Trump because they are simply American patriots horrified by the threat he poses to America’s noble traditions and institutions. I guess if you want to believe that the CIA, the GOP consulting class, and assorted D.C. imperialists, along with Bush-era neocons like Bill Kristol and David Frum, woke up one day and developed some sort of earnest, patriotic conscience about democracy, ethics, constitutional limits, and basic decency, you’re free to believe that. It makes for a nice, moving story: a film from the “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” genre. But at the very least, Trump’s campaign assaults on their most sacred pieties was, and remains, a major factor in their seething contempt for him.

https://theintercept.com/2017/08/05/wha ... ubvert-it/

[GannonFan]

They won't let Trump read that.

Thank god we have the deep state to protect us.

Nonetheless, Trump, as a matter of rhetoric, repeatedly affirmed policy positions that were directly contrary to long-standing bipartisan orthodoxy, and his policy and personal instability only compounded elites’ fears that he could not be relied upon to safeguard their lucrative, power-vesting agenda. In so many ways — due to his campaign positions, his outsider status, his unstable personality, his witting and unwitting unmasking of the truth of U.S. hegemony, the embarrassment he causes in Western capitals, his reckless unpredictability — Trump posed a threat to their power centers.

It is often claimed that this trans-partisan, elite coalition assembled against Trump because they are simply American patriots horrified by the threat he poses to America’s noble traditions and institutions. I guess if you want to believe that the CIA, the GOP consulting class, and assorted D.C. imperialists, along with Bush-era neocons like Bill Kristol and David Frum, woke up one day and developed some sort of earnest, patriotic conscience about democracy, ethics, constitutional limits, and basic decency, you’re free to believe that. It makes for a nice, moving story: a film from the “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” genre. But at the very least, Trump’s campaign assaults on their most sacred pieties was, and remains, a major factor in their seething contempt for him.

https://theintercept.com/2017/08/05/wha ... ubvert-it/

The deep state giveth, and the deep state taketh away.