The following article by Kenneth T. Walsh was posted on the U.S. News website October 6, 2017:
President Trump’s cycle is clear: announce a goal, then back off to let others do the work.
The pressures on every president are relentless and inescapable. Presumably Donald Trump is learning this basic fact about his job as he enters the most crucial period of his first year in office.
Americans want their president to be commander in chief, policymaker, healer, innovator, protector, role model, celebrity, administrator and empathizer. Trump has never needed to show most of these qualities before, and it’s unclear whether he can do so now.
So far, Trump has excelled as a disrupter who wants to shatter the norms of Washington. His job-approval ratings are poor, hovering below 40 percent, indicating that while his approach may satisfy core supporters who want him to turn Washington upside down, the rest of the country isn’t pleased. Continue reading “Fanning the Flames of Chaos”