Trump is making tons of progress while the media ignore it

Via Billy

The Trump presidency has been eventful so far, to say the least. The new president’s modus operandi is truly unique – guaranteed to ruffle the Washington establishment’s feathers for as long as he is around. Accordingly, every day is chock-full of Twitter blasts, personnel changes, resistance-inspired demonstrations, and, of course, everything and anything to do with investigations into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s election-hacking ways.

But “frustrating” may best define the new president. To wit, the same man who garnered Reaganesque comparisons during high-profile foreign trips to the Middle East and Europe can also be his own worst enemy.

The Charlottesville episode is instructive. Words of condemnation after neo-Nazis and related groups cause a riot are not difficult; just condemn neo-Nazi nut jobs with specificity in the strongest terms.

The responsibility of wing-nut leftists such as “Antifa” can be appropriately condemned at a later time and place. (No, they should have been condemned at the time since they had no permit and initiated the violence.) What was widely interpreted as a less than overwhelming initial response led to weeks of bad press. Such is the product of an unforced error.