Many of his critics still react to him every single day at Outrage Level 11, but the Trump threat is at Level 3 or 4.
Trump’s tax plan is being treated as an actual plan,
but it is just a sugar sculpture — 100 off-the-top-of-the-head words on a piece of paper, grappling with no hard issues and with no chance of passing in anything like the current form.
The Pond-Skater Presidency -
You’ve got to give him credit — Donald Trump is a lot more adaptable than many of his critics.
But it’s hard to maintain outrage at a man who is a political pond skater — one of those little creatures
that flit across the surface, sort of fascinating to watch, but have little effect as they go.
Many of us Trump critics set our outrage level at 11.
Parts of the Trump economic policy agenda are pretty good — corporate tax rates are indeed too high.