PBS News Hour host Amna Nawaz, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, and New York Times columnist David Brooks came together on Friday to mourn the first month of Donald Trump 2.0. Together, the trio would lament the supposed lack of “guardrails” that is allowing Trump to run “roughshod” over the government in pursuit of “Ivy League right-wing nihilism.”
Nawaz began with Capehart, “Can I just get both of you to briefly weigh in on this? Because we’re nearing one month into the Trump presidency. Is it clear to you where the guardrails are, Jonathan?”
Capehart was naturally a doomer, “No. No. In a perfect world, Republicans on the Hill would be the guardrails, the rails. They would do things like, I don’t know, maybe not approve some of these unqualified people to the Cabinet. But they haven’t done it. And in the case of…
