The Trump Era, already bookended

I'm no fan of The Donald. I'm often accused of that crime, because I freely show that I'm also no fan of the rest of the plunder class, either, which includes all but a handful of congress.

In February 2016 , well before the primaries ramped up, I posted this:

It's not supposed to be this important a job anyway. I bet if Trump would simply read the job description, he would immediately withdraw.

So now comes news that he finds the job "hard" The job is hard, but they make it harder by trying to "run things" Of course it's hard, Donald. You are making it hard. Stop it!

The federal government in this country has a very simple job. Oversee essential services, protect our borders, negotiate foreign treaties, and ....that's it. Everything else is supposed to run itself. Easy, right? The gig is limited in scope, and yes, he should be able to do it and his regular job at the same time.

Instead, Trump thinks he's in charge of health care all of a sudden. How did he make that leap of logic? The dope who held the office before him let them put his name on it. Not his only mistake, but a big one. Trump should not claim ownership of every piece of garbage bill this congress spits out; it's only going to define him badly. But maybe it's too late to change anything. Seriously. 100 and what, 10 days in, I can put a wrapper on this presidency:

In March 2016, I summarized the Trump proposition this way.

From appearances, here is a guy who transcends ideology, will address the festering issues of the economy, play tough guy with our enemies, and finally shake up the status quo in Washington. 

Instead, what we will get is a guy who has no ideology because he has no principles, has not a single idea of what it takes to fix an economy, totally misunderstands the aims of a foreign policy, and is one of the main contributors to the problem of cronyist Washington.

I had it written over a year ago, when no one else was bothering to predict the results of a Trump presidency. The transformation is complete. Brandon Smith gives a few more insights into the flippage. All I know is it was clear to those of us paying attention. Of course, if the electorate had been paying attention, we would have been out of this mess a hundred years ago. It makes the previous 100 days seem inconsequential.

Anyway, as I did with Obama's presidency, I'm calling it early. There's nothing more to say about the Trump administration (and while I'm calling things, I am predicting that he will not run for a second term. Then we can get on with the peoples' business of making America "Great" again.