I haven’t written for a while because every time I get a thought something else happens. Now I feel the need to talk about what is happening and hopefully offer some insight as to what we have in store for the future. The recent activities surrounding the President and the various characters in his administration as well as the various investigations is certainly entertaining in a weird way.

Let’s start with the firing of Rex Tillerson. It was certainly no surprise and, to those people who are wringing their hands about the fact that he was fired with a tweet, I say “where have you been?” We all know that there is more of this to come, but when you run your office like a reality TV show, it is hard to imagine what comes next.

The Stormy Daniels saga is just mind-boggling. We are focused on the payment of hush money, not the fact of the liaison (which I think may not be the case with Melania). However, it is clear that the evangelical leaders have forfeited, if not forever certainly for a long time, their right to make moral pronouncements about the behavior of our leaders. It turns out that they are as transactional as anyone else. They get what they want and ignore the rest.

What is really troubling is the fact that President Trump has figured out, in his own feral way, that he can really do whatever he wants. First, I think he was surprised during the campaign by the devotion of his followers. By now he thinks he deserves it and is acting accordingly. What he also knows is that the Republican leadership is way past the point of having any real objection to anything he does. He knows they fear his following turning on them as they did on Jeff Flake who cannot run for re-election and win. If (I would say when) he fires Rosenstein to get to Mueller, there will be great wringing of hands and public statements of “now we really are going to watch him” from people like our own Marshall Petain, Paul Ryan, and some head shaking from Mitch McConnell but that is all. And Trump knows this. After all, he has done so many offensive and egregious things, how can this matter?

Perhaps a wave of losses in the midterms will change this, but I doubt it. It is so much easier to talk about tax cuts and Obamacare than to reign in a President of your own party. Just ask the Democrats about when Clinton was dallying in the White House. Or, for that matter, watching Hillary continue to give speeches (paid, no doubt) where she essentially says the smart people voted for her and the others voted for Trump. Won’t the Clintons ever go away? Can’t someone give them enough money to leave the scene? I guess they are like our current President. It really is all about him and them.