Former speechwriter for George W. Bush compares Trump to gum disease

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Here's the CBC article, which draws on multiple interviews with David Frum.

"With Donald Trump, it's not a sudden seizure, not a heart attack, it's gum disease," says David Frum, who is now a senior editor at The Atlantic magazine.

"You can die from gum disease, but you don't die right away. Your body just corrodes and it begins to emit toxins, and the toxins get into the bloodstream and those toxins eventually affect the heart and you can die."

"The whole system of the United States was supposedly designed to keep people like Donald Trump away from power and if they somehow slipped into power, control them while there. That system is failing. Trumpocracy is the mode of government that's grown up in the failure of the American system."

And some other quotes that are far too long for this post.

The article's worth a read, no matter where you fall on the political spectrum - it helps illuminate some otherwise-murky parts of both the administration lead by the current POTUS and the process that put him there. it also explains why one is likely to be disappointed if one is hoping for a Democrat upsurge in this year's midterms.