The System Failed the Test of Trump
The story of recent years is of institutions that were
unable to constrain the presidency.
DAVID FRUM, former speechwriter for President George W.
Bush:
“The story of the Trump years is a story of
institutions that failed. The Department of Justice failed. The inspectors
general failed. Congressional oversight failed. The national-security
establishment failed. The courts failed. Trump has done things that no previous
American president would ever have dared, that no previous president sank low
enough even to imagine. Sometimes he was stopped, more often not. But whether
stopped or not in any particular case, he has never ceased pressing ahead to do
even worse the next time”.