I expressed a theory today about why Trump is so profoundly ignorant about how government works. Like Bush before him, he has no legal training. Clinton, Obama, and the vast majority of our Presidents were lawyers. Most of what a President does involves the law - proposing it, interpreting it, enforcing it. Lawyers are, by training, familiar with the spheres of responsibility of the branches of government, and have a strong affinity for the Constitution. Trump, on the other hand, has spent the vast bulk of his career abusing, flouting, and breaking the law in about every way imaginable. He couldn't care less what the law is and has no respect for the law or its enforcement. His familiarity of the law is mostly gained through avoiding it - by not honoring contracts, paying his bills or taxes, circumventing it or manipulating it. He is a very, very dangerous man.

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A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich