Even Fox News has Donald Trump at a 37% approval rating. That's low when you consider that he could probably do every horrible, bad-for-America thing that his detractors worry about short of nuclear war or mass genocide and he'd be at 25%. Soon, we will surely see polls that say an awful lot of people who voted for him are sorry they did. He hasn't even taken the oath of office yet and he already has his first two major scandals — the Russia thing and his refusal to divest or put his company in a blind trust. Doesn't look like either one of those is going away soon.
That is, to use the word that he appends to an awful lot of his tweets, sad. Even if you're among the 37% or so, you've got to think there's something really wrong when we're inaugurating a man who most Americans don't like. It's especially worrisome when it's a man whose modus operandi seems to exclude ever admitting when you're wrong or changing your approach. Everything is "double down" with this guy, along with "deny, deny, deny." I didn't see either Bush as a very good president but at least they both could sometimes — not often enough but sometimes — realize that what they were doing wasn't working and change course.
I sat down here to try and write something kinda positive but it just wasn't coming. The best I can do is to say that I don't think it'll be as bad as some fear…but that feels uncomfortably like the kind of confidence I had when I was confident there was no way this guy could win. I think I'll sit here and hope I'm wrong about a lot more stuff.