People are calling this administration — not even two weeks old — a slow-motion trainwreck.

I disagree.  There is nothing slow-motion about this at all.  It seems like every 6 hours there is something unprecedented happening, being met with bipartisan criticism.  This is not normal.

Last night, it was the firing of the Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who reasonably took the position that the immigration ban of Trump’s executive order was illegal. Not only did Trump fire Yates, but the White House statement announcing her firing attacked her personally, calling her “an Obama Administration appointee who is weak on borders and very weak on illegal immigration” who “betrayed the Department of Justice.” That’s a highly unusual if not unprecedented statement for a sitting president to make about a personnel change. Ironically, it was non-attorney political hacks in the Trump Administration who were calling Yates a “political hack” apparently unaware (or unconcerned) that we follow the laws and the Constitution in this country, and that Yates did what she was supposed to do.

The question has come up in many circles and in many different ways — are we being played?  Is the incompetence a feature, rather than a bug,.of the Trump Administration?  Are we being distracted by bad things so that WORSE things can be done? Are they trying to foster “outrage fatigue”?

Unlike many, I don’t think these guys are performing some hyper-level jedi mind trick on America.  I think they really are this incompetent.  Yes, I think Steve Bannon is into destruction of politics as we know it — he has said as much in interviews.  He wants to burn the system down in the hopes that a white nationalist system can replace it.  But no, I don’t think this is working.  Here’s why, as stated today in the Washington Post:

While Trump/Bannon wants to make it seem that it is only the media against them, as well as paid protesters (yes, they think all those millions are paid), the truth is that even conservative institutions are concerned.  Last week, for example., Trump took credit for the Dow clearing 20,000.  But after the disasterous immigration ban over the weekend, look how jittery Wall Street is.

I don’t think this cam be maintained for much longer.