The President's Primary Problem

The President's Primary Problem

“The president's primary problem as a leader,” Peggy Noonan stingingly remarked,

is not that he is impetuous, brash or naive. It's not that he is inexperienced, crude, an outsider. It is that he is weak and sniveling. It is that he undermines himself almost daily by ignoring traditional norms and forms of American masculinity. He's not strong and self-controlled not cool and tough, not low-key and determined; he's whiny, weepy and self-pitying. He throws himself, sobbing on the body politic.

He's a drama queen.
(Quoted by David Frum, in Trumpocracy - The Corruption of the American Republic, p. 226-7)

Dick Henthorn
15 March 2018