Is anybody home? Bannon’s “deconstruction of the administrative state” is already underway in America

March 11, 2017  |  http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-edit-page/is-anybody-home/

Is anybody home? One may not get an answer from the White House where the president is busy watching cable news and tapping out angry tweets. The US commander-in-chief’s erratic behaviour and tweeter storm has been explained by commentators as his diversionary tactic, which it may well be.
But it raises serious questions about the kind of leadership the US might provide in an uncertain and volatile world. While institutions have continuity plans to deal with the in capacitation of individual leaders, it is far less clear who is in charge when the nation that has led the free world for seven decades finds itself paralysed by the eruptions and ill-conceived policies of a former reality TV star.
By accusing President Barack Obama (without evidence) of ordering an illegal wiretap presumably with the connivance of FBI, Donald Trump has diminished the moral stature of the presidency.http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-edit-page/is-anybody-home/