Trump and the myth of the genius CEO as president

A few snippets:

- Trump has played right into the hands of his many critics in Washington, foolishly trying to discredit or even impede an investigation that probably leads nowhere. And in doing so, all he's managed to do is crank up the modern machinery of scandal politics,

- In the end, though, if Republicans are going to argue that the whole Russia fiasco has nothing to do with Trump, and is really just a story of incompetence and greed among a few cowboy operatives working for the campaign, then they have to acknowledge something else, too. Which is that this version of events further obliterates the entire premise of Trump's campaign, not to mention his party's principal rationale for having supported him in the first place.

- The only thing Republicans can really argue is that Trump didn't know. He was new to the political world. How could he have guessed that Manafort was so venal? How could he have known that Flynn wasn't being straight?

- He personally lobbied Comey to leave Flynn alone. And even now, after Flynn has been publicly disgraced and faces legal jeopardy for the conflicts he failed to disclose, Trump is said to be ruminating on a way to bring him back.

No, the president may not have been complicit in this dirty foreign intrigue. "Clueless" and "ineffectual" are the words that come to mind.

- But that's not this president. What the revelations around Russia are proving is that Trump doesn't actually run things well. His success in business comes not from being some management guru, but from being a relentless opportunist and a bit of a con man.

His only defense now is that he's the one who got conned.


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GOP:

Gaslight
Obstruct
Project

"His success in business comes not from being some management guru, but from being a relentless opportunist and a bit of a con man. "

He's more than a "bit" of a con man. It's his whole thing.


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Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed, finite system.

In biology, such behavior of cells is called "cancer".