Many of his critics still react to him every single day at Outrage Level 11, but the Trump threat is at Level 3 or 4.<br />Trump’s tax plan is being treated as an actual plan,<br />but it is just a sugar sculpture — 100 off-the-top-of-the-head words on a piece of paper, grappling with no hard issues and with no chance of passing in anything like the current form.<br />The Pond-Skater Presidency -<br />You’ve got to give him credit — Donald Trump is a lot more adaptable than many of his critics.<br />But it’s hard to maintain outrage at a man who is a political pond skater — one of those little creatures<br />that flit across the surface, sort of fascinating to watch, but have little effect as they go.<br />Many of us Trump critics set our outrage level at 11.<br />Parts of the Trump economic policy agenda are pretty good — corporate tax rates are indeed too high.
