David Friedman, named by Donald Trump as his Ambassador to Israel, is ideologically to the right of Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Every morning since November 9th, you wake up and read the news and think, This has got to be an issue of The Onion. Because, while so much of the media, in ways subtle and broad, attempts to normalize the Trump ascendancy, while we are told that patriotism demands that we accept Trump and “give him a chance,” the President-elect acts in ways that leave even dystopian satire behind. His behavior has little to do with conservatism or libertarianism or populism; his mode is recklessness, a self-admiring belief that unpredictability is the path to national salvation.
And so every day brings at least one fresh outrage: the appointment of a national-security adviser whose temperament resembles those of the unhinged generals in “Dr. Strangelove”; a keeper of the environment who denies the science of climate change; a chief strategist and senior counselor who ran a Web site laced with racist poison and bogus […]
At this point we can only hope that Trumpster will do something measurable for the economy..although he is inheriting a disaster of debt, Obamacare circling the drain, looming Euro crisis, as well as the horror that is Syria. Considering how “hope and change” worked out..not holding my breath. I think there is something to be said for having non-elites step in to positions that have been business as usual up to now. Choosing roaches instead of rats does not really help matters however!