Failure as success

In his column today in the NYT, Paul Krugman wonders why so many articles are being done on Trump voters and how they "stand by their man" in the face of relentless evidence he is an unprecedentedly unprepared and unqualified president.  I have heard some of the interviews with these benighted individuals, especially on NPR.  The interviewers are polite, but I sense they wonder what planet these voters believe we are presently inhabiting.  Trumpistas roundly denounce the media as portraying a false picture of the Orange Julius.  Despite the absence of any evidence, they feel he is making good on all his campaign promises even if the dastardly democrats are fighting like the whining babies they are!  However, as Krugman points out, The Shrub got the same sort of adulation early in his administration, albeit much of it coming with the lead up to the disastrous Iraq war.  What killed the Bush administration's credibility was the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the government's apparent feckless response.  The implosion of Wall St. and the Great Recession were further evidence that the republican party is incapable of governing.  In surveys toward the end of the Shrub's reign, most respondents claimed they voted for John Kerry in 2004.  It's a shame that is not so, as he would have made a great president.  Meanwhile, we wait for the first great test of tRump and his merry band of kleptocrats.  Will it be a domestic disaster, or some foreign crisis which allows the sheeple to see what the recent election has done to the governing apparatus of the greatest country in the world.  A prediction; it won't be pretty.