His Cabinet is an assortment of billionaires, CEOs, veterans of Wall Street, and ideologues, none of whom has any idea about how to govern and most of whom don't believe in the laws their departments are in charge of implementing anyway.
Meanwhile, he has downgraded or eviscerated groups of professionals responsible for giving presidents professional advice on foreign policy, foreign intelligence, economics, science, and domestic policy.
He gets most of what he learns from television.
So we have a congress with no capacity to govern, and a president who's incapable of governing.
Which leaves the most powerful nation in the world rudderless.
The country on whom much of the rest of the world relies for organizing and mobilizing responses to the major challenges facing humankind is leaderless.
It is of course possible that Republicans in congress will learn to take responsibility for governing. It is possible that Donald Trump will learn to lead. It is possible that pigs will learn to fly.
But such things seem doubtful. Instead, America and the rest of the world must hold our collective breath, hoping that the next elections -- the midterms of 2018 and then the presidential election of 2020 -- set things right. And hoping that in the meantime nothing irrevocably awful occurs.
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