THE DONALD – QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 10:46 A.M. ET:  How shall we see Donald Trump?  How shall we examine his work as he starts his presidency?  Leave it to the great Andrew Malcolm to lay out a perfectly sane and logical approach.  From McClatchy: 

I humbly suggest, therefore, that those who didn’t vote for Trump, such as most of those you’ll see commenting on him now, hold their fire a good while, give the distasteful new Oval Office occupant a chance, as even a shell-shocked Hillary Clinton suggested back in November.

Trump is a bold dealmaker who makes outrageous opening offers. If he succeeds, we succeed. After all, we’ve just survived two terms of an ineffective president whose real legacy turns out to be this Donald Trump guy.

Who knows, those “forgotten men and women” Trump often cites just may have sensed something the rest of us missed. Since the Founding Fathers emerging from an unlikely Revolution had faith in our system – and the choices of unknown millions of countrymen who would succeed them – how can we not too at what seems to us a pressing modern moment?

This promises to be a fascinating political year or four, a time rife with uncertainty, unforeseen twists, fears, even distaste and discomfort. But also possibly some positive discoveries as swamp waters drain, if they do.

To be sure, new ways can threaten, witness those five dozen Democrats who avoided inauguration ceremonies to hide in their congressional offices. But new ways can also renew. To paraphrase Hyman Roth in “The Godfather II:” This is the president we have chosen. The collective We, as in We the People.

COMMENT:  Good common sense.  Let Trump be Trump, and let him govern.  Let him also defend himself against the onslaught of attacks that are already starting.  I really have never seen anything quite like it. 

Even if Trump succeeds, his success will not be reported as success by some journalists.  He has to figure out a way around that, speaking directly to the people.

Feels like a revolution, doesn't it?

January 23, 2017