Personal House-Cleaning

The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd doesn’t like President Trump, as you might expect. In spite of which I think you’ll find entertaining her “take” on the past week’s Democratic debacle, which ended with firings of several Obama holdovers.

Dowd knows a disaster when she sees one. Here sourced to the Irish Times and thus out from behind the NYT paywall, is a link to her Donald-Trump-as-Don Corleone column. She began thusly:

Democrats: the only thing you have to fear is Trump himself. You should be quaking. Our unhinged monarch had a very good week and your party had a very bad week – and that’s no BS.

A lot of you told me, with expletives, that while you were watching President Donald Trump’s carnival-barking this past week, you were thinking, “We’re going to freaking lose.” Trump hollowed out the hallowed, Apprenticing one of Washington’s most august traditions Tuesday night, showing in the State of the Union how he has figured out how to use the levers of the presidency to amplify his flair for the dramatic. 

And she concluded with this:

Democrats should be scared to death watching the president play to thuggish type, re-enacting the chilling final payback scenes of The Godfather, when Michael Corleone took out all his enemies. It’s not business. It’s strictly personal.

As Dowd demonstrates, the Democrats’ attacks on Trump have been personal, why wouldn’t his responses be?