Frank Bruni, a great food critic, has also become a wonderful political commentator. So good, I can not paraphrase what he has said, so I will quote directly. He writes about the smallness, the meanness of our current administration, where he wants good to happen, but nothing does. "Who among the presidents of the last half century has been so publicly cavalier about conflicts of interest, so blithe about getting away with whatever grits he could, so lavishly mean spirited and so proudly rude? Who among those presidents made so little concession to decorum? Who stooped so low on the campaign trail or in office as to ridicule a disabled journalist and make light of a prisoner of war's ordeal? Who talked incessantly about how heroic his election was, summoning more energy for self-congratulation than he ever exhibited for the praise of others? Who taunted his adversaries with such abandon? Who made such spectacle of his grievance that he invented a phenomenon: sore winning?"
Why, after a hundred days, is this okay?
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