Progressive David Nir is upset with Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA):
This is very interesting indeed. Longtime Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein is an institution in California, but she’s often made liberals’ teeth ache. The most recent trip to the dentist became necessary just the other day, when Feinstein rather startlingly declared she believes Trump “can be a good president,” something it’s hard to believe any mainstream Democratic politician would ever think, let alone say aloud. Feinstein’s full remarks were even worse:
“I think we have to have some patience. I do. It’s eight months into the tenure of the presidency … We’ll have to see if he can forget himself and his feeling about himself enough to be able to really have the kind of empathy and the kind of direction that this country needs. The question is whether he can learn and change. If so, I believe he can be a good president.”
Feinstein thinks it’s possible Trump can learn and change? Forget himself? Show empathy? Seriously? Which Donald Trump has Feinstein been watching these last few terrifying years? Any hypothesis that involves Trump doing something you’d want him to do is automatically null and void. These are not open questions, because we already have the answers.
But I read the Senator’s remarks as a direct insult to Trump. After all, in Trump’s mind Trump is a great guy – why should he have to change? To change is to acknowledge the first eight months of his Administration have been abject failure.
I wonder if the progressives are a little trigger-happy.
