His refusal to lead couched in a sleight-of-hand of spurious politeness.
Detached, deferential to power, supine before the opposition. Normalizing extremism.
We must remember: President Obama refused to condemn Trump’s appointment of the racist, misogynist, anti-Semitic Fascist Steve Bannon to a crucial position on the White House staff.
And as it’s happening, Paul Ryan, with Trump’s tacit or not-so-tacit approve, plans the destruction of Medicare, while no matter how much Obama bends over backwards, Trump is going to fillet the ACA.