If Washington, D.C. has a motto, it is probably something like “It can’t be done.”  If it can be done, then the motto becomes “That’s not the way we do things around here.”  One could list a great many more.  All of them have a common theme: obstructionism. Then came Trump. He could not be nominated.  He was.  He could not win the general election.  He did.  He cannot keep his campaign promises.  Can he? Trump’s goals are not small ones.  If he achieves them, he will, to borrow words from a discredited president, “fundamentally transform America.”  Obama came dangerously close to wrecking the nation.  It will take an innovative and bold new president, along with a loyal Congress, to repair the damage. Trump will not be content merely to repair the devastation that on so many levels has been inflicted.  He intends to move on from there, to, as you...(Read Full Post)