- Trump resigned the presidency already — if we regard the job as one of moral stewardship, if we assume that an iota of civic concern must joust with self-regard, if we expect a president’s interest in legislation to rise above vacuous theatrics, if we consider a certain baseline of diplomatic etiquette to be part of the equation.
I know there's been no small amount of piling on in the 7 months of the Trump presidency, but the things pointed out here need to be said. It's not just a case of making poor decisions, it's making no decisions.
I was able to read the article without signing in with this link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/opinion/sunday/president-trump-resignation.html
Haha yeah. But what I really liked about this is for putting into words what I think a lot of us have been thinking. We've long looked to the president (even one we didn't like) as a unifying figure. We've seen president after president rise to the occasion, even if they later fucked up the practical application (see Bush with basically his entire presidency). But at least they tried.