This whole Report on Russians is a lot like a later Space Shuttle launch.  After many successful launches and two unsuccessful launches, NASA put a bunch of video cameras on the outside of the Shuttle to watch what happened during launch.  And they saw all sorts of wild things, they didn’t expect like tiles falling off.  But they didn’t know what to make of it.  Were these tiles necessary?  Does this always happen?  They had no context for the video they were watching.  They just didn’t know.

And that’s a lot like this report.  We don’t have reports like this on Obama or Bush or anyone really.  So what do we compare it to?  We don’t know how the White House does, has or should run.  We don’t know which tiles falling off will actually be a problem, which don’t matter and which are actually necessary.  Who is to say this is unbecoming a President?  Who is to say this will result in disaster?  Most of us don’t know from personal experience and we can’t even read about it because we don’t have a picture at this level of any other President.  It does seem pretty obvious that any President being dragged through this process for two years with a media hoping for the worst the whole time, is hindered.  If you look at the results of his actions, any bad results might just as easily be attributed to the insanely negative press, as to strange methods employed by Trump.

Also, no one seems to know how Trump, works.  Though in some ways he is the most transparent President we have ever had.  He he seems to be the same character in private as on his reality shows and in his books.  How many Americans do what he did?  We know no politicians have done anything comparable.  They have been spending their lives developing the perfect answers to the right candidate questions and crafting fake personas to get elected.  What we do know is that this Trump, whom we all know, was fairly elected.  We do know that politicians and media have no idea what Trump is saying, or how he communicates.  As evidenced by them seriously entertaining a joke about Hillary’s emails, as an invitation to the Russians.  They didn’t get the joke, and seem to think Trump chose to conspire with Russia while in front of thousands of people live, with the whole world watching at home.  So why should we think they understand anything he says?

It’s like watching a master chef at work.  If you don’t know anything about cooking, how can you criticize his methods as he cooks?  The real test is in the tasting.  If you understood the correlation between cooking and the meal, you could do it too.  But how many  of all these critics can do what Trump does?  And concerning those commentators who have worked in previous administrations:  Who is to say that their experience was the ideal?  Who is to say that things couldn’t be better or just different?  The American people sent a clear message by electing Trump.  They were tired of all these political professionals and their stuffy official speak and all the resulting nonsense.  They wanted something different.  They wanted a working man who wasn’t part of this Washington gang.  So assuming that his unorthodox methods are proof of evil is just begging the question. He’s not a politician, he doesn’t claim to be.

The truth is, there should not be political orthodoxy, there should not be professional politicians.  The whole point of our system was that normal people who have proven their worth in the real world, may serve for short periods of time in public office representing their fellow man.  Now this ship of state is covered in so many barnacles that all these foolish DC wonks think it is some grand crafted marble edifice.  I was even marveling at David French’s fawning love for this encrusted mass we call our justice system.  But many Americans are sick of all of it.  We want the barnacles scraped off and our USS Constitution and returned to we the people.  So give him a chance.  Maybe his methods actually work better.  It’s like when your boss asks you to do something you don’t want to do.  So you sabotage the task, or do it poorly, and then think you proved how wrong he was to even want it done.  Trump has had no support including from his own party, yet he has gotten things done.  In one sense this stale mate is good.  But if it only happens to Republican Presidents, then we keep moving in one direction.  That’s not trusting or even respecting the system, or the Constitution all feign to care about.  This isn’t the peaceful exchange of power.  You don’t withhold some of the power because you don’t like how someone tweets.  And any criticism of this hindered leader is really nonsense.  You cut the mans breaks and then mock him for crashing his car.

So the proof is in the pudding, as they say.  And we are all out there criticizing the rancher and his cows before they even thought about making gelatin.  People who are in the White House five minutes are trying to write tell-all books evaluating Trumps Presidency before it even started to happen.  We really need some perspective and context.  And I need some pistachio pudding.