Posted on 01/29/2017 7:46:09 PM PST by oblomov
Maybe the most pernicious myth in American politics is also among the most cherished. It is the faith-based conviction that the federal government can be run like a business, and it would be if we only had leaders with the fortitude to make enemies of the corrupt careerists who thwart this common sense idea. We are in the earliest days of a grand experiment to test the validity of the notion that the businessman’s dispassionate acumen can transform our sclerotic federal government into something with private sector efficiency. So far, it’s not going well. On Saturday, Donald Trump revealed once again why the insidious cult of the manager is a blight upon the American imagination. In the process, he also sacrificed his credibility and humiliated his core supporters.
In the campaign season, Donald Trump sold himself to the public as first and foremost a fixer. His principal qualification for high office was his lack of experience in government and a healthy disrespect for the political process. He was populist, yes, but also non-ideological. To the extent that his policy preferences could be expanded upon in detail, they drew from both Democratic and Republican prescriptions. Trump presented himself as above the petty ideological squabbles that have paralyzed Washington for decades. He was invested only in what worked.
The lie to all this was laid bare on Saturday amid a remarkable display of executive rigidity and incompetence.
The businessman-president is supposed to be, above all else, competent. There was none of that evident in the terrible implementation of the president’s executive order banning entry into the U.S. of not just refugees but visa holders and legal permanent residents from seven Islamic world nations.
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FakeNews.
Just noise.
My tag line addresses this appropriately.
NeverTrump was rejected.
Idiots...
This is white ebonics.
Disastrous? Lol.
Trump is winning.
Immigration splits the dem elite from their base and rallies the gop base.
Stupid nevertrumpers always get things backwards.
“...executive rigidity and incompetence...”
Trump is about 11 billion dollars worth of competence...
Snowflake, Noah Rothman, is having a spoiled brat meltdown. Give him a never trump participation award.
“We interrupt this program to bring you the latest fake news about Trump...”
This twit is judging Pres. Trump after a week on the job. That’s just stupid.
Actually it was going great until Friday. No denying this was handled BADLY. The GOP weenies were looking for an excuse to turn on Trump and l am afraid he gave em one. With everything against him he has no room for error. They should not have done this with people already in planes on thier way here. Disaster was result. I don’t know how bad the fallout is going to be but it doesn’t look good. Unfair yes, but as l said there is 0 room for error.
Oh & the author is a fool. The country can & should be run like a company.
Nah. This will work out ok.
This wasn’t a mistake.
If one of these folks was a terrorist, wouldn’t you want that guy stopped?
He didn’t hesitate to protect us.
Fantastic.
If reports on the Quebec mass murders are true, then Trump will not only have been vindicated, but look much smarter than the opposition.
Well if the report does anything to vindicate Trump then we have heard the last of it count on it.
The first thing I do when I see something like this is to Google the author to see if he/she is someone whose opinion I should care about and to learn what their point of view is.
After 5 minutes trying to find Mr. Rothman’s bio, I give up. All there is, other than he’s a Jew, is a self-referential that he is the “Online Editor for Commentary Magazine”. So what? I found where he’d worked for Mediaite and some other blogs, again - so what? He appears to be maybe 25 years old and since he hides his bio so well it must not be something he’s proud of.
One comment was that he moved from a blog with “neo-con leanings” to a “full neocom” outfit.
As for his mamblings, I say again, “So what?”.
You’re nuts.
Is this Noah Rothman the dumb Noah Rothman? Or is this the stupid Noah Rothman? I get those two confused.
>> Maybe the most pernicious myth in American politics is also among the most cherished. It is the faith-based conviction that the federal government can be run like a business.
I disagree. I think the most pernicious myth is the faith-based conviction that it can be run by lawyers/politicians.
What are you talking about!? I want to see them come and be turned back at the gate! I want the worst hardship imaginable. I want to hear ululating old women herded back to the magic carpet they rode in on. We won, they lost! Tuck your junk and man up, gibsonguy!
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