TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS CREATED FEARS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ASILE

…Will this become the New York City White House?

 

Will Trump just stay in his Trump Tower penthouse apartment while acting as president?

 

Because there is no one in the Trump administration beside the vice president-elect that has any clue about running a government, due to the incoming administration’s tone, their personnel choices, their overall confusion and their questionable agenda, they have created legitimate fears on both sides of the aisle.

 

House Democrats, all 169 of them, were fully justified in writing to President-elect Donald Trump demanding that he dump Stephen Bannon as chief strategist. It is shameful, although entirely expected, that no Republican lawmakers joined in on that letter.

 

It was expected that with a bigot like Donald Trump, then of course another bigot like the Secretary of State in Kansas, Kris Kobach, he would obviously be called upon for discussions about dealing with illegal immigration.  And as expected, Kris didn’t disappoint the team.  He immediately revived the ludicrous idea of the US having a Muslim registry for all incoming and current American Muslims.  It must be noted that Mr. Kobach was personally responsible for writing the legal wording for many of the voter photo ID legislation that has infected so many Red states across the nation.  The ID legislation has already been found to be unconstitutional in some states by the federal courts.

 

Because Trump has been so negative about immigration, the New York City mayor, Bill de Blasio, met with Trump because he thought it was important to explain to him how fearful people are in this country. That it’s not just about Trump’s flaming rhetoric, but some of the policies that have been proposed.  These proposals have people wondering whether their family members might be deported, either because of their religion or their ethnicity.

 

To top off the week, Trump went back to threatening the press and he had an unsupervised but chummy telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin on an unsecure cell phone.

 

Now the word is being circulated that that Trump might just stay in his Trump Tower penthouse apartment as the US president.  This is causing the question to be asked, is he that insecure about leaving his current surroundings?  A man so obviously emotionally fragile, and that seems to have to have his son-in-law always at his side.  I guess if that will calm him down and reduce his outbursts and errors, maybe that’s for the best.

 

So far, Trump has still not relinquished ownership or management of his business, creating troubling conflicts of interest, especially with regard to his major building loans from foreign banks.

 

So, what other kind of screwy things are going on in Trumpland.

 

Well, first the New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is permanently out of Trumpland.  First he lost to Trump in the primary, then he lost out on the VP spot, and now he is once more disgraced and abandoned by Trump.

 

Dr. Ben Carson says he won’t take a cabinet position because, he says, he doesn’t know that much about the US government….?  So a man that ran for president is turning down any possible cabinet position because he doesn’t know enough about American government….?

 

Vice President-elect Mike Pence now seems to have a major role in the transition, and he quickly purged out the lobbyists who never should have been there in the first place.

 

So far, the Trump transition has not been the absolute worst transition you could have imagined. But with Trump, not doing something stupid, you know, something that no rational person should ever have considered, that’s now cause for high praise. Trump critics are mindful of how much Trump requires approval, and they will no doubt encourage him when he gets things right.  So, will they be praising Trump while creating a “new normal” of low expectations for what used to be totally intolerable?

 

It will be an easy call to denounce this kind of total GOP cowardice that facilitates such dangerous, immoral or unconstitutional behavior.

 

Over and over again during the campaign, GOP Senate and House incumbents and challengers swore up and down that they would speak up and act as a brake on Trump. They have done nothing so far. If they don’t keep their word, voters in 2018 and 2020 should kick them out......but what are the real odds of that happening?

 

True, future candidates should be prepared to challenge these spineless Republicans in the primaries or the general elections.  Millennials, in particular, should be prepared to go up against these new insiders of the new Trumpland GOP.

 

Remember, dissent can be the highest form of true patriotism.

 

Copyright G.Ater  2016