HARRY REID TRIES TO DESCRIBE PRESIDENT TRUMP AND ENDS UP DESCRIBING HIMSELF:

What struck me about this was both the flash of insight (Trump is, I’d agree, amoral in the same means-to-an-end way that the Democrats are, the difference is that he doesn’t mouth pieties about all the people he’s helping) with the total lack of introspection that one finds somewhat shocking at a time when he’s looking Death in the face and should be taking stock of his life and perhaps regretting the evil he’s done. There is really nothing Reid said about Trump that can’t be laid at his own doorstep. I don’t think there was a single person in DC, of any political party, who thought you could rely on Reid’s word or honor. I’m not sure there are very many…including Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin and, famously, Claire McCaskill…who thought he was ever a competent caucus leader.

Where I really think he gets Trump wrong, however, is in saying he’s “oblivious to the real world.” I don’t see the man that way. I think he’s very aware of the world but is dismissive of processes and traditions that constrain his ability to act. To a great extent, I think Reid was pretty much the same. He slandered Mitt Romney on the floor of the Senate because he thought it gained him an advantage. He imposed the “nuclear option” for federal judges because the immediate outcome, in his mind, outweighed any future downside.

Truth be told, a lot of Reid’s criticism of Trump as president comes directly from Trump not hesitating to play hardball rather than be the Republican piñatas he was used to dealing with.

Harry Reid’s immorality and craven love of power politics for its own sake is precisely how we got Trump — and ironically enough, how we got Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.