I’m pondering a couple of hours since Trump’s speech to Congress. It had all the usual pageantry, yet was peopled with unqualified cabinet members, the world’s richest dilettante slashing and burning at-will, a supine, radicalized GOP that adheres to none of its traditional values, and only competes for performative fealty to their master. He himself is simply…outrageous. A grifter, a buffoon, an ignoramus with charisma.

How did this disastrous presidency happen? The most powerful nation on earth no longer has a serious federal government.