David Frum, a Bush 43 speech writer, writes a hit piece in The Atlantic

Bemoaning their "fact" that Trump despises the "work of governance," [never mind that the man starts at 6 am and finishes his day around 11 pm].  Keep in mind that Trump has signed 40 pieces of legislation including the important VA reform and whistleblower protection act,  has slowed illegal immigration across out borders by nearly 70% saving millions of dollars per week,  has started land acquisition and design for the Southern Border Wall,  has reversed hundreds of Presidential orders written by Obama,  brought the Middle East leadership into the fold of U.S. allies  . . .  and enthusiastically so.  I could go on,  but my point is this:  David Frum (the author) is as disconnected from reality as is Nancy Pelosi.  My red highlights are the very opposite of what they propose to be true.  Just remember that,  as you read.  


The U.S. government is already osmotically working around the presidency, a process enabled by the president’s visible distaste for the work of governance. The National Security Council staff is increasingly a double-headed institution, a zone of struggle between Kushner-Flynn-Bannon types on one side, and a growing staff of capable, experienced, and Russia-skeptical functionaries on the other. The Senate has voted 97-2 to restrict the president’s authority to relax Russia sanctions. It seems the president has been persuaded to take himself out of the chain of command  in the escalating military operations in Afghanistan. National-Security Adviser H.R. McMaster recently assured the nation that Trump could not have done much harm when he blabbed a vital secret to the Russian foreign minister in the Oval Office, precisely because the president was not briefed on crucial “sources and methods” information.

In their way, these workarounds are almost as dangerous to the American system of government as the Trump presidency itself. They tend to reduce the president to the status of an absentee emperor while promoting his subordinates into shoguns who exercise power in his name. Maybe that is the least-bad practicable solution to the unprecedented threat of a presidency-under-suspicion. But what a terrible price for the failure of so many American 
_____________________________
David Frum, the author of the above article and excerpt,  had worked his way into the mainstream of Conservative national politics in spite of the fact that he was a Canadian citizen.  He was a speech writer in GW Bush's White House,which tells you much about the direction of GW and his progressive agenda.