N. B. The horrific Las Vegas shooting (earlier on page for details) took place prior to putting together the pundit round-up and no pieces here cover it. Thoughts and prayers are never enough. We as a country took no action after Newtown, though individual states did better. And here we are. Again.
Josh Kraushaar/National Journal:
America under President Trump isn’t becoming an autocracy, as some recently feared. Our country’s democratic institutions have demonstrated their resilience, the media have rediscovered the importance of checking those in power, and the bureaucracy has demonstrated that simple inertia can overwhelm even the most committed demagogues.
I’ve struggled how to precisely describe this moment in American history, in which the leader of the free world is an erratic, demagogic celebrity who dominates every nook and cranny of public life like no president before him—yet is so weak institutionally that he can’t pass any legislation with his party fully in charge. In February, I anticipatedthat the Trump administration was “more likely to look like a tragi-comedy, not a horror story.” Still, that doesn’t fully capture the uniqueness of this moment in American politics.
The Trump administration resembles an American version of a monarchy, in which the head of state consumes outsize attention but has ceded significant power to trusted advisers, his party’s leadership in Congress, and well-placed bureaucrats across the government.
Dave Weigel and Elise Viebeck/WaPo:
“I don’t know him, I don’t know him,” said Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio).
“I haven’t taken a deep dive into his record,” said White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
“Let’s give him a chance,” said Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.).
For most Republicans, Roy Moore’s run for Senate in Alabama is a subject best avoided.
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