@farmerman,
Quote:Ya know Im noticing how Trump is slowly slipping into irrelevancy.
Anybody comment on that?
Is he worried?
I'm not sure what you're thinking/perceiving here. That he's being kind of swallowed up in the larger dynamics of the party and by the broad and very complex demands/activities of the presidency?
If it's something like that - He's clearly way out of his depth and that shows in so many ways. But his narcissism and need for adulation and to appear as the Alpha dude makes all that much worse and so he can't help but end up looking like a clown. He clearly thought (as did Bannon) that once in the office, they could act and speak as their decrepit hearts desired but that was, to a great extent, a delusion. Others in the party, like Ryan and McConnell, and other drivers of the agenda like the Koch crowd will be ready to get rid of him in an instant (because he's putting their future power at risk) but they too are now constrained by the base (which they were happy to drive crazy and make stupid).
As I've said before, he didn't want to be President with duties, he just wanted the status and in no small part he wanted it to "show those people who laughed at me". His present weakened state in the overall picture is equivalent to a kind of irrelevancy. Still, he's going to cause a lot more damage before he's gone.
