Matt Ford hit the nail on the head this week in a piece published by New Republic.  Titled “Trump’s Tax on the National Psyche“, Ford talks about how Trump not only is an incredible time waster himself, he’s also wasting the time of all Americans with his outrageous behavior, Tweetstorms, and pernicious lying.  Rather than taking care of the People’s business, Trump wastes much of his day in “executive time” watching Fox News, tweeting, and talking to his pals.  He runs the government like his cheesy reality television shows intentionally keeping the public and the media in knots by issuing a continuous stream of idiotic declarations-by-tweet rambling everywhere from buying Greenland to attacking members of Congress who happen to have the wrong skin color in his opinion.  The press has been reduced to trying to get some semblance of policy during his Chopper Talk sessions where he stands before a forest of microphones screaming bullshit over the screaming of his helicopter’s engines.  It’s ridiculous.

It’s exhausting and draining.  Even the people who support him are surely exhausted having to defend their hero’s criminality and corruption, and I believe it will take years to recover from this infestation of the WH, if we ever can.  Ford does a good job with his analysis and his piece is worth a read.