As the Trump administration careers toward its 100th-day of governance — an informal benchmark established by Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s hyperactive ascension to office during the Great Depression — the agenda includes:
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A new tax plan
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Revival of whatever the president intends for the Affordable Care Act
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A Congressional showdown over the wall that Mexico ain’t ever going to pay for, and maybe a government shutdown.
I bravely predict that the only bit of it that might actually happen is the shutdown, and Trump might order something blown-up in order to change the subject.
But America, it turns out, is far better than the preening buffoon it elected. The press has stepped-up aggressively, and never mind that most news outlets don’t know how they’re going to cover the next electric bill. The courts have smacked-down Trump’s oligarchical high-handedness. The American people have marched; just this past weekend, in Chicago, more than 40,000 showed their appreciation for science and disdain for ‘alternative facts.’
Even many evangelicals, I’ll bet, have begun to wonder if they misplaced their faith.
So … I’m optimistic about America. We, the People, are sound — and we will prevail against the depredations of a president who is plainly incompetent, plainly corrupt, probably treasonous, and borderline mad.