Future presidents must restore what Trump has destroyed
Eugene Robinson
Washington Post
The .. administration's approach to governance is that of a .. toddler confronting a .. stack of blocks: Knock it down and scatter the pieces. It may take years to rebuild what .. Trump and his minions are destroying.
This is not the systematic move toward small government that conservatives have long sought. It's a lurch toward bad government, inadequate government, incompetent government. In some cases, it's driven by spite; in others, by .. cluelessness. Ultimately, we will all pay a price for Trump's nihilism ...
... our diplomatic corps is being decimated by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. This is a bipartisan issue ...
Tillerson, who once reportedly referred to Trump as a "moron," ... has approached the State Department as if he were an ambitious midlevel corporate executive tasked with downsizing an overstaffed branch office. He has forced out a host of senior diplomats, hired consulting firms to advise him on a reorganization, agreed to slash the department's budget by 31 percent and refused to fill jobs that his predecessors considered vital.
... With every career ambassador .. elbowed out the door, a lifetime's worth of contacts and expertise depart as well ...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/opinion/ct-ptb-robinson-column-st-1129-20171128-story.html
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I remember seeing all the Democratic presidential hopefuls on the stage back in 2008 - and wondering who would want the job after Bush*. This is already exponentially worse - and it's only been months. 
