(01-19-2017, 10:54 AM)Anthony Wrote: But don't you think that the fact that they are incompetent means that this is going to be a one-man show -
No. If they are incompetent, it means Trump will get much less of what he wants done that Congress opposes. As partisanship increases, Republican legislators increasingly become independent actors, with their own brand that will ensure re-election. They don't need Trump and in four years (or 8 at most) he will be gone and they will still be here.
So that means Trump will likely be just another Bush, unless he achieves a major war or similar one-off event.
This of course assumes that the Trump appointees in those areas he cares about (i.e. not education or HW) are incompetent. Neither Tillerson nor Mathis strike me as incompetent.