Unlike Obama, who was very
predictable regarding how he would govern and approach the executive office –
only those blinded by their overt partisan sympathies and sentimental liberal
pieties and those who lost all access to objective reasoning by actually being
so foolish as to think that electing the first black [somewhat black] president
meant anything other than that when there was absolutely no reason to presume
any other ‘great’ or propitious thing beyond that one rather mundane fact
bloated into hyper relevance by astounding idiocy – only those
delusional souls thought Obama was anything other than an arrogant left wing
ideologue who would govern exactly as one would expect an arrogant left wing
ideologue to govern – to wit, badly.
Unlike Obama, I think sincerely we do
not know what to expect from Trump – it could go horribly wrong and it may
not –
so far the signs are provisionally good, but the tea leaves are far from clear,
and one suspects that president-elect Trump can turn into candidate Trump at
any moment. His comments on Castro’s passing are very encouraging –
he seems to be virtually the only world leader to speak the truth about the
malignant tyrant, a man who urged Kruschev to start a nuclear war over the fate
of his wretched little gulag island – that there are leaders out there
actually praising the man and expressing grief is truly depressing –
so Trump’s
honesty is wholly refreshing.
It’s with the possible nomination of
Romney to State that the conundrum of what to expect reveals its
inscrutability. I think Romney would be a good choice both optics wise and
policy wise – but why is Trump making the offer? Is it to rub Romney’s
nose in the shit he tossed Trump’s way? Or is it because he realizes
that his campaign was an anti-establishment performance that of course would rub many establishment
types the wrong way – but now is time for governing and holding petty grudges
will not prove helpful. If it’s the former, I’d say that does not
bode well – if it’s the latter, that’s
promising. That we can’t know what the truth is takes us back to the beginning –
it’s
virtually impossible at this time to know what to expect from a Trump presidency.
