Denne administrasjonen kommer til å bli noe for historiebøkene. Det skjer så mye underlig at man går i spinn. Trump brukte gårskvelden på å angripe "løgnaktige og uærlige medier" på enda ett massemøte, mens de løgnaktige var samlet til White House Correspondent's Dinner. Helsike er løs når det gjelder forbindelser til Russland og man må si seg enig med George W. Bush, som tørt kommenterte innsettelsestalen til Trump med: "That was some weird shit."
Det er ikke blitt mindre "weird" siden.
The New Yorker oppsummerer de første 100 dagene.
The opposition to Trump also has to give deeper thought to why a demagogue with such modest and eccentric experience could speak with such immediacy to tens of millions of voters anxious about their lives and their prospects, while the Democratic nominee could not.
The intellectual and political task ahead is at once to resist the ugliest manifestations of the new right-wing populism—the fears it plays on, the divisions it engenders—and to confront the consequences of globalism, technology, and cultural change.
Politicians and citizens who intend to defeat the forces of reaction, of Trumpism, need to confront questions of jobs lost to automation and offshoring head on. Unemployment is at five per cent, but that does not provide an accurate picture of an endangered middle and working class.
The political math is clarifying: four hundred and eighty-nine of the wealthiest counties in the country voted for Clinton; the remaining two thousand six hundred and twenty-three counties, largely made up of small towns, suburbs, and rural areas, voted for Trump. Slightly fewer than fifty-five per cent of all voting-age adults bestirred themselves to go to the polls. That statistic is at least as painful to process as the Comey letter, the Russian hack of the D.N.C., the strategic failures of the Clinton campaign, and the over-all darkness of the Trump campaign. It’s a statistic about passivity, which is just what a democracy in the era of Trump can no longer afford.
A Hundred Days of Trump - The New Yorker