Mara Gay: We Are Watching Daily Destruction of the East Wing and No One Is Stopping Trump

GAY: “One thing that’s so disturbing about this, Joe, is when you talk to people who aren’t journalists, don’t work in politics, on both sides of the aisle, Americans just cannot understand how the president has been able to do this. They are watching daily the destruction, or they were, of the East Wing, and no one is stopping him. And I think it does get back to, yes, Congress is feckless. Yes, the Supreme Court has been feckless. But we have heard presidents, both Republican and Democrat and others, defend for decades now, the importance of institutions. And when it comes down to it, everyday Americans say, in my own life, I’m not seeing these institutions working for me. Prices are still up. I can’t afford a house. You know, I see billionaires getting access in both parties. And now those institutions have failed to stop Donald Trump from destroying the people’s house. And it is a metaphor, as Peggy Noonan and many others have said, because he slashes and burns and it’s shoot first, you know, deal with the consequences if there will be any later. And this is how he’s operated the entire presidency, through tariffs, you know, through stopping U.S. citizens on the street with a masked police force. He’s daring someone to stop him. And no one has. And we watch the destruction of the people’s house day in and day out. And nobody came to do a thing about it because our institutions cannot keep up.”