More evidence of deep trouble, from a new book: Another example: While visiting Pearl Harbor, according to John F. Kelly, Trump’s former chief of staff, Trump seemed to have no idea what had actually happened there. Throughout he is misinformed and confused while at the same time utterly certain of himself. An example of small but nonetheless piquant news: Administration lawyers came up with a nickname for Matthew Whitaker, the former acting attorney general. They called him Mongo, after the illiterate galoot played by Alex Karras in the Mel Brooks movie “Blazing Saddles.” And kleinbl00, I think I actually believe what Parnas told Maddow last night, that Yovanovich wasn't really under surveillance, and the 24/7 drunk wannabe-GOP-rep, Robert Hyde, saying all that stuff was "joking". We'll see, 'cuz the FBI apparently showed up at his house and business office yesterday. Maybe without a cyclical economic cycle, democracy is much more likely to fall apart? It's sad that I'm jonesing for a downturn in the hopes of preserving American democratic institutions. And it genuinely affects my state of mind. Trumpers would delight in this.[The authors] report that in the spring of 2017, Trump implored Rex Tillerson, then secretary of state, to help him jettison the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. “It’s just so unfair that American companies aren’t allowed to pay bribes to get business overseas,” Trump whines to a group of aides. Nearly every line from Trump, in “A Very Stable Genius,” is this venal.