Frank's Musings

The analogy has never been clearer:  any spoiled brat always ignores rules.  World order is only kept up by every nation's acceptance of collaborative behavior--i.e. conformance with expectations.  Dysfunctional families are a product of insisting on or awarding exceptional treatment to one of its members.  

Maybe it was Trump's presentation of himself as an exception to the customary acquiescence of liberal democratic leaders to the rule of law that won presidential elections.  But both domestic and international patience with his petulance is finally disappearing.  Hopefully, this year's midterm U.S. elections will carry that impatience into the heretofore subservient Congress. New majorities in both legislative Houses will be able to fulfill their parental responsibilities and discipline America's embarrassingly disorderly President.