Trump's first week--what do YOU think?

I'm only watching the news now to figure out how much food and ammo to stockpile.

Optimist, are you?

More along the line of caution. I didn't expect him to be nominated, nor get elected. I was wrong twice.

I dunno. I'm somewhat surprised how much he's done or tried to do. He was elected by people because he promised to d x, y, z; he's trying to do x, y, x. I may be unhappy about x and y, though somewhat indifferent to z, but there's something to be said for actually following through. I'll give him a little more time til I condemn him. After all, I gave Obama til February 17th, and I voted for that turkey.

Like Rob said, he did campaign on this stuff.

He's also trying to run the country like his own corporation. Executive Orders all the way. He's not even pretending to try and get anything past through legislation.

Well, no one is going to get elected with a promise to kill puppies.

Regardless, I submit that the only way that Trump could possibly be doing an excellent job--for people with your mindset, Cass--is if he was purposefully not doing any of the things he said he would, if he was in fact reversing himself completely on multiple fronts. Yet if he was doing that, he'd be roundly condemned as a matter of course. Right?

Yes, that is the only way he'd be doing an excellent job.  That's not because he's conservative so much as because he made so many promises I thought were batshit, crappy ideas.

If he were simply moving towards implementing more conservative economic policies, selecting qualified conservatives for his cabinet, and quietly forgetting about shit like his Muslim ban and Mexican wall, weren't executing so many ill-thought-out executive orders and stranding legal residents of the U.S. all over the world, he could earn a satisfactory (better than expected) and/or a "I'll wait and see."

If Jeb or Kasich were president now, I've no doubt that's how it would be going, and I wouldn't be so fucking disgusted right now.  I might not be thrilled, either, but there's a fair shot I might like at least some of what they were doing, and at any rate, I don't think they'd be implementing it so rashly and with so little thought.  I'm also pretty certain they'd have carefully vetted, qualified cabinet appointees, whom I might not love, but wouldn't be able to scoff at.

Instead, Trump is ramming down the parts of his pre-election ranting I found least palatable, making dubious (at best) appointments, and creating chaos.  

I'm moderate on the economic side.  I've got a distinct libertarian streak on many issues.  A moderate conservative would not freak me out.  Trump does.