Until this moment, I have never seen the words Vinnyfonfonsett Street in print.

One reason is there’s no such thing.

The other is that the words themselves have only been spoken.

The speaker was my father, Jack Thomas Meinero.

The words were his invention, as far as we could tell. I or my brothers or sister would ask him where something was, and he say some number and Vinnyfonfonsett Street.

And he and we laughed it off.

Because one of my dad’s most unusual traits was his ability to conjure words. He had specific words that were unique to him and, as far as I can tell, nowhere in Webster’s.

The word that has come to mind most in the last 36 days is eaf. There’s a family disagreement on the spelling – some believe it’s eef. But there’s no disagreement on who it describes.

As in “Trump. What an eaf!”

A disgusting substance is kak, which is short for kakiolo. This might not have been completely his invention. After Trump was elected, The New Yorker used the Greek word kakistocracy to describe the government being formed. So there’s an outside chance my father derived kak from the Greek.

One of the advantages of being a creative wordsmith is that it makes you an amazing storyteller and lecturer. Especially when you combine descriptive language with an amazing ability to mimic voices and alter tones.

When my brother, Jared, was around 11 or 12, he was enamored with a fried chicken place on the main drag in our town. My father was always suspicious about the quality of meat in that kind of place, and wanted my brother to stop going there.

“They take a bunch of chickens on a long walk, “ he told my brother. “And the ones that don’t make it end up at that fried chicken place.”

He had quite an imagination. And that might only have been his third best trait.

In second place was his preternatural strength. In the early 1960s my aunt had a Fiat, a car just over from Italy. There was a tight spot in front of her apartment building. So my father decided to park the car for her. First, he dragged one end of the car into the spot and then the other.

I didn’t see that for myself – I only know that from witnesses, one of whom described it without prompting 15 years after the fact and with an awe that I wouldn’t have expected from someone I’d never met before.

But I wasn’t surprised. It wasn’t like I hadn’t seen him lift more things in one hand that I’ve ever been able with two.

First place, though, belongs to his determination.

He was a man who didn’t finish high school and who, when he married my mom 65 years ago, was mounting truck tires at a time when they didn’t use the machines they have now.

But he became a salesman and spent 45 years at Firestone. And he was determined that his kids and grandkids would go places he could only imagine. We have degrees and careers that he helped put in our hands, and I can never go a day without marveling at how hard he worked. Not so much for himself, but for the future. Our future.

After today, that future will go on without him. That’s hard to believe and hard to write. I love him, as my mom, my siblings and our spouses and kids do — and always will.

We’ll cry. But as he wished, we’ll also laugh.

We’ll make a left turn onto Vinnyfonfonsett Street, and watch out for eafs.

It’s Friday, February 17, 2017.

It was on this date in 1963 that Michael Jordan and Larry the Cable Guy were born. Go figure.

OK, so here’s why I’m not as shell-shocked as many of you from Trump’s train wreck of a news conference yesterday.

I didn’t watch it.

Yes, that seems wrong for a journalism professor. But I was in the process of heading to that job and I missed it.

I sure as hell heard about it.

I own an Apple Watch – a cherished gift from the woman I love – and it practically buzzed itself off my wrist as I held the steering wheel.

One text that came across said Trump made Sarah Palin look like a stateswoman of the world.

I, of course, have read a lot about what transpired yesterday. It sounds scary. For anchors at CNN and even Fox to use words such as “unhinged” is not something traditionally ascribed to the world’s most powerful person.

So, instead of analyzing Trump’s comments, because I didn’t see them in real time, I just have two questions:

1. Why would he do this?

People talk a lot about the jujitsu of Trump. It goes something like this: Anytime you think there’s something so amazingly negative about him, he somehow survives and maybe even flourishes.

In that way, he’s like a virus. If an antibiotic isn’t strong enough to kill it all, the virus mutates and becomes resistant.

If there’s any analogy that fits Trump, it’s that he’s a virus.

The killer antibiotic that didn’t work was the Access Hollywood tape. Trump was on the defensive for a day at most, and then went on the attack. He survived and won.

If that didn’t finish him off, what else could? Even the idea that he’s Russia’s choice and in Vladimir Putin’s pocket seem to have become another way for the virus to become more resistant.

So a news conference in which he looks certifiably insane doesn’t really faze Trump much. It’s like batting practice to keep the resistance to antibiotics strong.

And it has the added bonus of feeding his constant need for attention.

How many times have we gone two days without hearing from or about Trump since the summer of 2015 when he started running? His need for attention doesn’t even take holidays off.

What rational people saw yesterday was an ignorant, self-obsessed spoiled rich kid with way too much power was what Trump viewed as playtime.

And despite the record low approval ratings for the start of his presidency, he’s still got his loyal rooters – the 40% of this country that thinks he’s doing a good job.

2. What will it take to get his supporters to see the light?

No, it won’t be yesterday’s news conference.

The antibiotic analogy works here, too. They’ve seen so many things that would normally crush belief in a politician – and their faith just gets stronger.

So when you and I and people we think are rational see a lunatic, there are people – especially in my neighborhood – who see a guy giving it to the forces that diminish their lives.

Democrats. Immigrants. Blacks. The media. Environmentalists. Educators.

That’s a fair list – not totally inclusive, but you get the idea.

As long as Trump is seen by these people as riding roughshod over their perceived bad guys, they’re happy as hell.

Which brings me back to the question – what will it take to wrest them away?

One way is going to be economic dislocation.

There are people who believe this economy is terrible. They are dead wrong. They seem to have forgotten what a bad economy is.

It’s double-digit inflation percentages, not the current 2.5% annual rate – which itself is a spike from recent years but still reasonable. It’s double-digit unemployment percentages, not the current 4.8%. It’s a loss of confidence in our country as the worldwide driver.

It’s going to start from overseas. A decline in demand for U.S. products, in some cases just out of spite. If Europeans stop buying Coca-Cola and McDonald’s because they hate Trump, that begins the snowball running downhill.

Who with money to spend is going to visit this country if there’s all this turmoil and hassle? Is that how you want to spend your vacation?

Couple that with the impact making immigrants – legal or otherwise – too terrified to go to work, and you have more economic problems.

When Trump’s lunacy affects Americans’ wallets, that’s when his message might start to go sour.

The other way Trump could be taken down is when he finally reveals his true contempt for the masses who admire him.

This guy has sold the Brooklyn Bridge to people who believe that he’s a great businessman who help make them rich, too.

And yet, every freakin’ proposal he’s made so far is aimed at helping those who already have as opposed to those who barely have or don’t have at all.

At some point, what he and the Republicans are proposing for such things as health care, tax reform, trade and the environment are going to crush the people who voted for him.

And he will reveal that contempt. It will come at an unguarded moment. Or when he’s tired. Or when he’s pissed off enough. Or when he believes that he’s become so immune to the brickbats of his critics that he doesn’t think there’s anything he can say or do that can affect him.

That’s when vainglory will bite Trump in his ample rear end.

I still have to believe that moment is coming. Because yesterday’s news conference wasn’t quite it. Yet.

1. It’s Wednesday, February 15, 2017.

2. According to a story by my friend and former CNNMoney colleague, Chris Isidore, this date usually sees a spike in divorce lawyer referrals. 

It’s also the 119th anniversary of the bombing of the USS Maine in Havana’s harbor.

3. Given all that’s happened in the first 26 days of the Babylonian Captivity, aka the Trump administration, it’s hard to imagine 50% more of this, much less 47+ months.

But without knowing what the hell will happen between now and then, or even if there will be a Trump administration, day 39 – Feb. 28 – is one to circle on your calendar.

On that day, Trump is scheduled to deliver something akin to the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. Technically, it’s not a State of the Union, because he won’t have been president long enough to fairly gauge the state of the union.

It’s hard to imagine what’s going to transpire.

Traditionally, everybody gives the president a standing ovation as he enters the House chamber. These legislators – and, remember, these aren’t the youngest people among us – climb over, shove and elbow each other for a chance to shake the president’s hand, a photo for the folks back home.

Will Democrats actually welcome Trump? After everything that’s happened, will they sit on their hands and attempt to embarrass him?

Although, given the past few weeks, it’s hard to know what would actually embarrass Trump.

Will Trump use the speech to tout the achievements of his month-long administration? Or will it be another in his combination self-promotion ads/rants?

Will Trump waste the nation’s time re-airing his grievances against the news media, trashing President Obama and mocking Hillary Clinton? Will he go after “Saturday Night Live,” Nordstrom’s and Rosie O’Donnell?

Will he talk about being in the famous Capitol building? Will he tell us how everyone is pleased with his administration? How great the team he’s put together is?

Does he think we will have forgotten about the Flynn flap by then? Will there be someone else whose indiscretions warrant resignation in disgrace?

Finally, and I know this is a lot of questions, will Trump back off and not show up? Will he risk being humiliated by Democrats in Congress, and by some Democrat speaking for the party in the rebuttal who is so much more eloquent that it’s plain to anyone who watches?

Getting to Feb. 28 will be a task. And Feb. 28 itself might be no picnic – for everyone involved.

1. It’s Monday, February 13, 2017.

2. It’s the birthday of Jerry Springer, a former mayor of Cincinnati who apparently also hosts a daytime TV show.

At the Pinstripe Bowl in Yankee Stadium on Dec. 28, a video of prominent Northwestern alumni featured Springer rooting on his – and my – Wildcats. The fans of the other team, Pittsburgh, were first stunned to realize that Springer was on our side, then booed almost as lustily as they did later for ESPN’s Michael Wilbon.

However, Northwestern won that football game.

3. Which segues into my sheer joy – and that of Springer, Wilbon and the rest of us in purple and white – over last night’s men’s basketball upset of No. 7-ranked Wisconsin. In Madison.

This is a big step toward the Cats’ first-ever appearance in the NCAA tournament.

4. My two classes at William Paterson University take a weekly current events quiz. It requires them to read the front page stories in The New York Times which, being 21st-century students, most of my students find online.

The big problem writing questions for this quiz is that so much of the front page of the Times has been consumed with the foibles of the new presidential administration.

Since my classes started on Jan. 19, the front page has been consumed by presidential tweets, fights over his cabinet, crazy policy decrees, concerns about conflicts of interest and questions about the integrity of the slugs drawn into this mess.

A new administration is, by definition, a change. And we knew this one was going to be quite different from the prior administration, in part because the head of the new team questioned the legitimacy of his predecessor by saying he wasn’t born in the United States.

But the time we’re spending dealing with all the turmoil of the Trump White House seems excessive.

It also seems like part of the plan. And for no reason other than he can’t stand not to be the center of attention.

Even the protests against him seem to be part of his plan. I’m sure his outsized ego is bragging that these protests are the biggest ever against a new president – none of the other 43 guys had complaining crowds this big, if at all.

And how much of this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” was devoted to people and problems caused by Trump? Was about two-thirds of the show Trump-related? He must love that.

This is the mentality of a toddler in a supposed adult. The ultimate spoiled attention-seeking spoiled brat.

The problem with that is that there are real problems, both in the United States and around the world.

How much attention are the Trump follies sucking from the crisis in northern California concerning the Oroville Dam? Nearly 200,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in a place where, after years of drought, there’s suddenly too much water. 

How much attention is being paid to the battle for Mosul and signs that the Iraqis, with help from American forces, are slowly recapturing this key city from ISIS? 

There are political crises in Europe and an American infrastructure that needs rebuilding. North Korea wants to show off the only thing it seems to produce, nuclear weapons. 

And yet, we’re consumed with whether the head of the National Security Council is a double agent and how much the Trump Organization is profiting from the Trump reign.

And Americans are beaten over the head by it. Every day. Perhaps the idea is to wear people down.

So far, it’s not working. No incoming president has ever had as low an approval rate.

Then again, maybe that’s a sign it is working. It’s another superlative of which Trump can brag.

That, more than anything Jerry Springer can come up with, is a freak show.

1. It’s Friday, February 10, 2017.

2. Today is the 50th anniversary of the ratification of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.

Speaking of which, you might be hearing the term Section 4 a lot these days.

Section 4 of the 25th Amendment allows a president’s cabinet and vice president to determine that a president is unable to discharge his duties and suspend him from office. The vice president would become acting president.

Both houses of Congress would then vote to determine if the president is able to resume his duties or if the acting president should continue in office.

3. Right now, it seems clear to about half the country that, for the last three weeks, the Oval Office has been occupied by someone clearly unable to adequately discharge his duties.

The problem is that another almost half the country believes the guy in the Oval Office is doing just fine.

That group includes the majorities in both houses of Congress, the vice president and the Cabinet of creatures the unfit president appointed.

I don’t understand why Trump and the Republicans think bullying their way to ruling, not governing, was going to make their life better or easier. This administration’s mandate to lead grows weaker and weaker.

And it’s coupled with a level of incompetence and corruption that makes what’s transpired before this seem petty.

Is it possible that Trump supporters – people who screamed about Washington establishment members enriching themselves – can’t see the impropriety of a private company profiting from the nation’s highest office?

Don’t these people feel like they’ve scratched their fingernails on a blackboard when they hear a White House spokeswoman tell people to buy the president’s daughter’s product line?

Don’t they understand that it’s not OK for a Michael Flynn, weeks before a new administration takes office, to give a wink to a foreign power when the sitting U.S. government is sanctioning it?

Are there really people who believe that, after a court unanimously upholds a temporary restraint on the immigration rules, that TWEETING IN CAPITAL LETTERS WILL CHANGE THINGS? 

I guess so.

4. So even if half the country is ready for Mike Pence – a petty jerk in his own right – to become the 46th President of the United States tomorrow, it ain’t happening.

Because there are people who still think this – what we’re going through right now – is what this nation should be. They think we’re purging the elites and getting government’s yoke off the hard-working little guy.

Which is the opposite of what’s happening.

But while that disconnect continues, Article 25, Section 4 will remain under glass, ready to be used when this all finally gets to be too much.

If the republic survives to that point.

5. Yes, there’s a clamoring for Rosie O’Donnell to play Steve Bannon on tomorrow’s “Saturday Night Live.”

Yes, O’Donnell is a talented comic actress. Her portrayal of Doris, the third basewoman in “A League of Their Own,” is forever etched in baseball lore.

And yes, her new Twitter profile picture makes her look quite remarkably like Trump’s Rasputin.

But if she does play Bannon on SNL, brace yourself for disappointment.

For one thing, the Melissa McCarthy portrayal of Sean Spicer is fresh in everyone’s mind. And that was pretty amazing – Spicer can no longer appear without people thinking about it. I suspect he now knows how Sarah Palin feels about Tina Fey.

Those are high bars for O’Donnell to vault. Along with the fact that Alex Baldwin, who might do the whole show as Trump, is hosting.

So I won’t be disappointed if she doesn’t show up, or if she does and it falls short of expectations. Or if Leslie Jones plays Bannon. Or – here’s my choice to really get under his skin – Natalie Portman, who’s however many months pregnant.

But if O’Donnell is there, I will join the rest of you in cheering her on. At the very least, it will piss off Trump and Bannon.

I can dig that.

1. It’s Thursday, February 9, 2017. It’s the birthday of Carole King and Mookie Wilson – both the pride of New York.

2. It’s snowing here. Big time.

It was 62 degrees yesterday around 2 p.m. Now, at 9:49 a.m., there’s about 6 inches of snow on the ground.

3. Yesterday’s Senate confirmation of Jeff Sessions is also confirmation that there are people itching to undo the nation’s advancements in civil rights.

It seems more and more obvious that the folks who responded to Trump’s pledge to make America great again were thinking about the time before black people asserted their desire to share in this nation’s promise. Before Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks. Maybe even before Jackie Robinson and Joe Louis and Duke Ellington.

These people believe that, back when America was supposed great, black people – and their fellow travelers, the Asians, Muslims and Hispanics – knew their place. And it wasn’t going into the institutions – work, school, store, arena – where white people felt comfortable.

If you don’t think Trump’s election was the last attempt of a white-dominated society to fend off the inevitable in this country – the changing demographic that will make the collected “other people” the nation’s majority – you missed the point. That’s what it was all about.

The people who supported this jackass – some of whom still have his campaign signs on their front lawns – were doing it to get back at black people for daring to seek an equitable society.

And they found their voice in a self-proclaimed multibillionaire – we still don’t know, because we haven’t seen his taxes – who saw an opportunity by pandering to them.

Now, we’re stuck with him. And he sees a way to ensure the loyalty of the scared by putting people like Jeff Sessions into power. With full control of Congress, nothing stands in the way.

4. Except our voices.

Protests get under Trump’s skin – just look at his insane Twitter feed. And they’re jolting the people who support him.

They’ve seen how effective protests against injustice have been in the past – there’s an almost 60-year history of success in making strides. Those strides include the African-American president who sent these people into a tizzy eight years ago.

Some have pointed out the irony of what’s happened in the Senate the past couple of days.

That a white female senator could be barred from speaking because she read a 30-year-old letter from the widow of a black civil rights leader.

That the letter was aimed at preventing a racist – who was nominated for attorney general – from a judgeship.

And that the racist was confirmed as AG during Black History Month.

Yes, today, as I look out the window, there’s a lot of white stuff dominating the day.

The good news is that it melts. Sometimes slowly, sometimes with the help of a 62-degree day. And the world emerges more vibrant.

Let that sustain us as we fight Sessions, Trump and the rest of the effort to turn back our nation’s progress.

1. It’s Wednesday, February 8, 2017. It’s the birthday of composers John Williams and Joe Raposo.

On a personal note, it’s the birthday of my cousin, David Detrio. The best word I can use to describe him is kind. He was my defender and pal when I was a kid, and I always thrilled to see him.

He died in 1968 at the age of 20 of Hodgkin’s lymphoma – and one thing I’ve thought over the years is that the survival rate for the disease has improved over the years.

Yes, that’s a tribute to brilliant and dedicated scientists. But I always think David’s hand is involved somehow. Because he was so thoughtful that he couldn’t imagine other people suffering the way he did.

2. Here’s this week’s weather in greater New York:

It started with the coldest temperatures of the winter so far. Which isn’t saying much, since it’s been consistently above freezing.

We had a day full of rain yesterday. Today, it’s clearing and temperatures are rising to the upper 50s.

After midnight, we’re getting up to a foot of snow.

I’ve been alive for almost 63 years. And maybe my memory’s getting a little foggy in my advancing age.

But I don’t remember weather changing as rapidly or radically as it seems to do now.

In winter, it’s generally warmer and we have these crazy changes. In summer, thunderstorms seem more violent and frequent. And every month seems to set a temperature record.

And I don’t think it’s just here in New York. There are extremes throughout the country and the rest of the world.

No, I’m not a scientist. But when idiots, including the eaf who occupies the Oval Office, calls climate change a hoax, I wonder if they live in the real world.

Because while I appreciate that scientists concur, climate change seems as obvious as day. All it takes to understand it is living through it.

3. If there’s a 22nd century United States of America – and with the Trump regime, there’s no guaranty we’ll get there – I expect Mitch McConnell to be one of the more reviled names of the early 21st century.

Last night, in a stunt aimed at enhancing his lapdog status in the White House, McConnell invoked a Senate rule to stop Elizabeth Warren from speaking against Jeff Sessions’ nomination for Attorney General.

Because Sessions is a sitting senator, any criticism of him deemed personal is a violation. Warren read from a letter written in 1986 by Coretta Scott King urging the Senate to block Sessions’ nomination to a federal judgeship, citing instances of his racism.

McConnell led his Republican sheep to a resolution that blocked Warren from taking part in the debate.

As we get further along in this Trumpocracy – and even though there’s only 11 days to go, I’m still hoping he’ll get frustrated with this and break William Henry Harrison’s record for the shortest presidency – his backers seem more determined to stop people from complaining.

Trump and the Republicans have done nothing – absolutely nothing – to reach to the people on the other side. Which, by the way, outnumber them – on Election Day, the number was 2,864,974.

By not doing so, it’s amazing that they’re surprised by the opposition. It’s unprecedented for a new administration, and disturbing. Elections are supposed to bring the country together. This one is tearing it apart.

McConnell’s power play symbolizes the Republicans’ frustration that almost all of the 65,844,610 who voted for Hillary Clinton aren’t falling into place. Despite the fact that they are not represented proportionally in the White House or Congress.

Let’s face facts. Those of us sickened by Trump, his henchmen and the pliant Republicans are going to lose more battles than we win – the Betsy DeVos fight is a prime example.

That doesn’t mean we stop. It means we keep going. We’re changing the climate, and we need to make it as clear as the weather.

1. It’s Wednesday, February 1, 2017.

Just being able to write “February” feels a little better.

2. January, as awful as it was, will be the best month of 2017, according to sportswriter Jesse Spector.

Why?

Because Trump wasn’t president in 19 days of it.

Which means February is the second best month of the year, since it only has 28 days of Trump.

3. There appears to be some confusion among Democrats about how to deal with this Supreme Court pick.

Some Democrats believe they shouldn’t go to the mat to stop Neil Gorsuch. This seat on the bench is the one that was occupied by Antonin Scalia, so from that standpoint, it’s a wash ideologically.

The thinking goes that the next seat – the one vacated by one of the four remaining liberal-moderate justices – is the one that requires a full-scale donnybrook.

Wrong.

This notion that Democrats have to hold their fire is what has Democrats in trouble.

The right doesn’t seem to believe in holding its fire. It goes after everyone every time.

That’s why we don’t have Associate Justice Merrick Garland. That’s why Cassandra Butts isn’t the late ambassador to the Bahamas, since she died while an ignoramus senator from Arkansas stalled her nomination because he hated President Obama.

Republicans don’t seem to leave seats uncontested, and they play at every level – local, state and federal.

Democrats have to do that too. Stop thinking that you’re going to spend yourself in a fight. Think, instead, of the fight – win or lose – as fuel for the next one. Keep fighting.

That is what the people who vote for Democrats expect this time. They are angry, embarrassed and sad, and right now there’s nothing short of God or whatever supernatural force atheists believe in reaching from the sky and smiting Trump and the rest of them that’s going to assuage their emotions.

Any Democrat who votes for Gorsuch gets a big X next to their name from other Democrats. That is the reality 12 days into the Dark Ages.

1. It’s Tuesday, January 31, 2017.

2. It’s the birthday of Garry Moore, who was once among the biggest stars in television, and who now is little remembered.

He hosted the game show “I’ve Got a Secret,” but he got huge ratings with a variety series. I can’t remember if he had any particular talent – he wasn’t a famous comedian or singer. But his show was the launching pad for Carol Burnett, who people do remember.

Moore died in the 1990s – he had a lot of health issues over the years.

3. Americans probably could use a rest from the Trump years. Or at least it seems like years – this is only day 12.

It really does feel, as Paul Krugman tweets out this morning, that the country would be able to endure a long Trump presidency. Even guys who had strong ideas about how to change things – FDR, Kennedy, Reagan and Obama – didn’t come into their presidencies shooting first and asking questions later.

Why are Democrats nostalgic for Reagan and even the Bushes at this point in the Trump presidency?

Because even Reagan, ideologue that he was, wanted to govern. He didn’t want to rule.

That is the difference.

4. Governing is how a country operates.

Yes, you set the tone and agenda. But you try to do that by convincing as many people as you can that this is the right thing to do. You talk to people, not at them.

I disagreed with everything Reagan did and stood for. I think he damaged the country. But he got eight years from the American people because he masterfully reached out to those who didn’t vote for him and tried to sell what he was doing.

Trump hasn’t tried. There was brief feint toward reconciliation in his victory speech early on Nov. 9. But that didn’t last the week.

There was never the traditional bury-the-hatchet meeting with his opponent, like the one between Barack Obama and John McCain. Hell, the night before the inauguration, Obama attended a dinner in McCain’s honor.

That wasn’t because they were close buddies, although I do believe there was some respect between the two at the time. It was part of how Obama wanted as much of the country at least looking at him positively before he took office.

Trump has been in go-to-hell mode going back before the campaign. He seems to have no interest in unifying the nation.

And what makes that all the more amazing is the fact that he didn’t win the popular vote. He didn’t even come that close to winning the popular vote – 2,864,974 fewer votes than his opponent.

Give George W. Bush credit – and I can’t believe I’m doing that. After what is now the second most contentious election in our lifetimes, he reached out to the other side even though he was about a half-million votes behind Al Gore.

5. And here’s the screwy thing: Trump could have made his life a lot easier.

Everybody understood that we elect a president through the Electoral College, not the popular vote. So no one would deny Trump his legitimacy – if he didn’t undermine it himself with his bluster, his tweets and his bullying.

Seriously – what if Trump had waited to implement this immigration debacle. What if he had talked to Homeland Security and Defense and State and Justice to make sure they were all on board, waited a few weeks to draft a proposal, and then gone to the American people to calmly explain why he was doing it.

Yes, there certainly would have been protests. But they wouldn’t have been so massive, the policy wouldn’t have seemed so draconian and counterintuitive, and a broad consensus of the American people might have signed on.

You wouldn’t have had the Deputy Attorney General fired after stating she didn’t believe the ban was constitutional. Because she would have been consulted ahead of time and resigned – or asked to resign – if she couldn’t go along.

The fact is that Trump doesn’t want to govern. He and the dolts who voted for him – and let’s stop being sympathetic to their concerns, because they’ve signed on for this crap – believe compromise and consideration get in the way of what they believe they should happen.

They want to rule.

The problem is there are more people on the other side. And they don’t want to be ruled.

How will this end? Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe Trump, Bannon and their ilk will get what they want – they’ll wear down and wear out the opposition and get their agenda.

But every day, it seems, there’s something that shocks and outrages people. It might get tired, but it also doesn’t go away. And it cuts into the heart of this country – and these are wounds that might not heal in our lifetime.