There is no doubt that Donald Trump is a unique individual. It is also obvious that he has many flaws. However, he has many significant accomplishments to his credit for the first 7 months of his term, notwithstanding the lack of support from substantial segments of the Republican establishment and the implacable resistance of the Democratic party, aided and abetted by the mainstream media. 
The greatest obstacle has been the Republican so-called leadership. It should have been obvious that Paul Ryan, who is a decent man, totally lacks the skills and the stature required to be a dominant Speaker of the House. His weakness was glaringly evident in his feeble run for vice-president against Joe Biden, who in one-on-one confrontation chewed him up and spat him out. It is tragic, bordering on treasonous, that after condemning Obamacare for seven years, Ryan and his factotums didn’t have full-scale, first-rate repeal and replacement legislation ready on the first day of the Trump presidency. They did not, and the bill the House passed is weak and of dubious efficacy.
As for Mitch McConnell as Majority Leader of the Senate, he, too, is weak and ineffective. He seems to have been totally unaware that Senator McCain, one of the most over-rated politicians of his era, was planning a bait and switch of grandiose proportions. His appearance in the Senate to vote on moving the Senate bill to the floor was adored by “everyone” as an act of great courage because of his surgery and cancer diagnosis. But McConnell failed to determine before McCains’s grand-standing, what his intentions were on the vote to send the bill to conference. Everyone, and especially McCain, knew that the House and the Senate versions had deep flaws and it would require highly skilled legislators to  merge and improve them to create a successful piece of legislation.
But the crafty, egomaniacal McCain said he couldn’t vote for the deeply flawed version, knowing full-well that the very purpose of the vote was to transfer the legislation to a venue where it could be improved.  McCain’s true motivation was to damage Trump. McCain is fiercely jealous of Trump who won the presidency while he failed miserably. To compound the matter, Trump had already infuriated McCain by denigrating McCain’s heroic service in the Viet Nam war.
While this was going on, Trump and team have gotten an unprecedented 15-0 Security Council resolution against North Korea. Trump has been criticized by both sides for his powerful responses to bellicose threats from North, but even if Trump’s “friends” didn’t get it, Kim did. He backed down from threats against Guam.
In another essentially trivial event, right-wing extremists, some shouting foul epithets, marched legally in opposition to the removal of statues of Civil War Confederate leaders. They were assaulted by bat, stave and rock throwing lefties, while the cops stood by. A White Supremacist punk drove his car into a crowd of counter-protestors and killed an innocent woman, seriously injuring several others. An outrage, no doubt, and Trump condemned it, excoriating violence on MANY sides. The left and some utterly foolish Republicans were furious—Trump wasn’t specific enough in not specifically naming, NeoNazis and KKK’s in the march. Trump was correct. In fact, he was referring to the many instances of violence in recent years, including the slaughter in San Bernardino, the horrific attack in Orlando, and the many incidents abroad, including in Paris, London, Brussels, and soon after in Barcelona. Trump was condemning violence in its many forms, but the left and even the right chose to view his words as relating only to the events in Charlottesville.  Later, he condemned the KKK, Neo-Nazis and the others who had marched in Charlottesville, but even that was not sufficient. Subsequently, he spoke an obvious truth: the hard right protestors had secured a valid permit for their march, and while they made many disgusting statements, it was the counter-protestors who struck the first blows. But Trump’s enemies would not have accepted anything he said, as they were determined to trash him and any of his supporters who spoke out to defend him. Very few did. Nothing Trump said was false, dishonest or disreputable in any way. But, this was used as an excuse by many in the business community, academia, etc. to condemn him, drop out of business and other fora and councils, and isolate him as much as possible. I am 87 years old and have been following politics for over 50 years, and I have never seen anything like the attacks on Trump. While his enemies gloat, they ignore—to their and our peril—the effect of this undeserved calumny of a U.S. president. There is undoubtedly a vast left-wing conspiracy, but many Republicans and conservatives who should be supporting the president and acknowledging his achievements, have disgraced themselves by joining in this cabal. I wondered whether we could ever recover from Barack Obama, America’s most dishonest and destructive president, but the despicable attempt to destroy this President of the United States is so vicious and wide-spread, I fear for the nation. I fear for Western civilization. I fear for the world. Only the good sense and high character of the vast majority of the American people can save us from disaster.
 
 

 

  
Today the nation faces one of the greatest crises in our history. When I state this, many citizens, Democrat and Republican alike, will automatically assume that I am referring to President Donald J. Trump. Yes, I am, but not because, as allegedly brilliant scholars like Charles Krauthammer  have stated, that Trump is “unfit to be president.” That is arrant and despicable nonsense, and people like Krauthammer, who ought to know better, should be ashamed of themselves for making these unwarranted remarks—for even harboring such destructive beliefs. Would they have preferred the unindicted major felon, Hillary Clinton, or the sniveling socialist, Bernie Sanders?  
The truth is that despite his occasional coarseness and sometimes seeming ignorance, Trump is the one person who can drain the Washington swamp, uncover and destroy the corrupt “deep state” and create a conservative majority that can save the union—and preserve American Democratic-Capitalism.
The first reveal by Trump is that Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House, is both feeble and feckless. When the nation learned that after 7 years of disparaging Obamacare, the Republicans had no alternative ready to replace it, Ryan was exposed as both weak and incompetent. In the Senate, Mitch McConnell proved to be as inept as Ryan, and without authority in his own caucus. It was not surprising that John McCain would oppose anything that might advance the stature of Donald Trump. Trump’s foolish remarks about McCain’s military service forged him as an implacable foe. No doubt, McCain was a brave hero in his years as a captive of the Communist North Vietnamese regime. But his career since has been unremarkable at best. The McCain-Feingold campaign finance rules were foolish and destructive. As a presidential candidate, McCain was a disaster.
As for Susan Collins, she is as deeply a Republican as Nancy Pelosi, in other words, not at all. She runs her own little fiefdom in Maine, notable only for her lisping speech. Lisa Murkowski is another creature, indeed. Any capable majority leader would have been able to force her in line,  but not the feeble old flatus my wife calls “Marblemouth.” McConnell is serenely content with himself, having reached the pinnacle of his ambition as Majority Leader. He has a lovely and charming wife (what she sees in him is a mystery), and a safe retirement. He is unalterably opposed to dumping the non-constitutional “filibuster rule,” even though it stands in the way of a successful Trump presidency, and more important, it blocks the future of America. The Democrats will assuredly dump the rule as soon as they return to power, and in view of McConnell’s weak-kneed performance, that may happen sooner than anyone thought possible.
In the meantime, Sessions having unnecessarily recused himself from the Trump-Russia investigation, a supporter of James Comey, and therefore an enemy of Trump has been appointed special counsel. If Robert Mueller were truly the honest man his supporters (and some  Republicans) would have us believe, he would never have accepted the appointment. His only conceivable goal is to revenge his great friend James Comey for being fired by President Trump.
Special Counsels (Prosecutors) always win. Mueller didn’t take the job because he thought it would be constructive to clear the air so that Trump administration could proceed free of suspicion. No, he took the job so he could be a hero and bring down a presidency. That is why this charade cannot be allowed to proceed.  Freed of this “noise” Trump can advance the prosperity of the country—of the western world—and stymie the Iranian dictatorship, the Venezualan dictatorship, the Russian dictatorship and all the other dictatorships. We can control and ultimately destroy the North Korean threat, and more important, stymie the ambitions of China, intent on dominating the world—and also revenging the damage the west inflicted on China across hundreds (perhaps thousands) of years.
Whatever it takes—Mueller must be stopped. If it can be accomplished by the president simply firing him,  should be done. If there are other alternatives, let’s find out. Allowing another egotist to insert himself into the affairs of the country is one too many. The well-being of the country is too important to leave it in the hands of Mr. Mueller. Let’s stop this travesty NOW!!!