Its not about the legality of Trump'S firing of the state attorney. He has any right to fire her, and honestly said - if I were in his seat and my just called in state attorney falls into my back and calls a ministry to boycott me, I would immediately fire that person, too.
What it is about however is that Trump is so rude and stupid to stampede around not like one but like a whole herd of elephants, in a fashion that raises resistance and hostility in spectacular ammounts and no time, almost necessarily. You can have the law on your side, and still be wrong. At least acting stupid while the law is on your side. His problem is that he bahves and decides in a way where he ends up needing to fire his people and sees his institutions he needs to support him, opposing him instead. Its not the What - its the How where he failed. And I think it will be not the last incident of this kind, nor has it been the first.
I do not necessarily disagree with some of Trump's goals. I do not oppose the wall against Mexican mass migration. I also do not oppose in principle to ban relations with and travel/trade from and to certain countries, on the basis of hostile ideologies. I have called for that myself in the past. However, i would understand that the way in which I impose these sanctions, need careful preparation of the public as well as of the institutions, and that I am ill-advised to enforce this against the majority's will with an iron fist, just because I have some paragraphs on my side. At least as long as I do not will to accept my rule bein a full-blown police state and dictatorship, with military on the street and secret police silencing my critics.
But as any sociopath, Trump finds it difficult to see that there is other life on this planet which may not fall in its appropriate place he has forseen for it. For sociopaths, other people simply are things they can handle and arrange at their will, without scruples, and without any serious expectation that they could resist or fight back, because they are just - things. Like you handle your book and rip it apart or lay it down or treat it well or throw it around wiothout bad conscience - its just a thing, and your belonging. It got to have no will of its own.
This way of policy-enforcing onto the American public could lead America to breaking point. And there is a certain chance that it could even blow it apart, if all and everything goes wrong.
Another problem with the ban from certain countries is that Trump is incvonsistent there, he allows travelling still from several known terrorist Muslim states. He contradicts himself there, seriously damaging his credibility. Delicously - it are countries where Trump has own business interests. To say he protects these interests probably is alternative fact and Trumpophobia only.
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Last edited by Skybird; 01-31-17 at 11:34 AM.
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