Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLUIn '17, he was just plain incompetent. He did have the supposed 'guard rails' who were summarily dismissed one after another. By '18, the wealthy had their tax cuts, but he couldn't kill ACA.
I think it was evident how truly dangerous he was after Helsinki.
January 9, 2017
An example of what I’m talking about emerged when Senate Democratic leader Charles Schumer was asked by Rachel Maddow about Trump’s spurning of the agencies’ findings. Trump is “taking these shots, this antagonism, this taunting to the intelligence community,” Maddow pointed out. The response by Schumer—who has been in Congress since 1980, and in the Senate leadership for ten years, and presumably knows his way around Washington—should send a chill through the heart of every American:
Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you. So, even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he’s being really dumb to do this.