The ‘No Guardrails’ Presidency

The ‘No Guardrails’ Presidency
Scaramucci was quoted (and later re-quoted in The Times) saying the following:
Of the now former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus: “Reince is a fucking paranoid schizophrenic.”
Of the White House’s chief strategist: “I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock.”
Of the Beltway “swamp” that wants to undermine Donald Trump: “They’re going to have to go fuck themselves.”
Of his new colleagues in the administration: “They’ll all be fired by me.”
In its account of the conversation, opted to quote Scaramucci in full.
In “August 1968,” The Journal noted in its editorial, “the Democratic National Convention
found itself sharing Chicago with the street fighters of the anti-Vietnam War movement.”
The editorial continued: “The real blame here does not lie with the mobs who fought bloody battles with the hysterical Chicago police.
On Wednesday, Anthony Scaramucci, the new director of communications in the White House,
phoned Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker to demand the name of an alleged White House leaker.
They are our new Antinomians, who believe the president
and his administration are bound by no law, even the Mosaic one, because they have already been saved by a new version of grace — in this case, the grace of defeating Hillary Clinton.