As a preliminary matter, I’m delighted to be back from vacation and back in the United States. Easily forgotten during the coverage of the incompetent and intellectually corrupted officials who populate this administration are the honorable men and women in the civil service here and abroad carrying out administrative and security roles. They are invariably polite, efficient and professional - and for all the ribbing the Transportation Security Administration takes, its performance far exceeds that of its foreign counterparts.
As for the Trump administration, neither temporal nor geographic distance improves one's perception of the president's multitudinous and outrageous misdeeds.