When Trump tries to do worthwhile things support him. We he tries to do harmful things, oppose him. Trite and obvious, I know, but still sensible. I agree that a good approach is to be focused, well informed, serious and not abrasive. Feigning horror every time he says something offensive obviously does not work. Pussy grabbing is bad, but is it really worse than creating chaos in the middle east resulting in 10s of thousands of deaths, or enabling narco dictatorships in latin America? Our real goal, in my opinion, (and others will disagree) should be to do whatever we can to undermine and remove the corporate Democrats in leadership positions so that in two years and four years we can elect people that will actually do some good. In the long run the corporate Dems are probably more harmful than the Republicans because they create a situation in which we are only allowed to choose between two corporate/MIC parties. This precludes the election of progressive populist governments of the sorts we need for the planet and the beings that inhabit it.

What kind of President will Trump be? I am looking for other Presidents in the past whom he could be analogous to, and three come to mind: Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Warren G. Harding. In terms of political support, he might be most like Andrew Jackson, who won fame as a general in the War of 1812 and struck populist views about Indian policy and the Second Bank of the United States, then the country's reserve bank. But Trump doesn't have a serious public service background and is not from a modest background-- quite the opposite.

If he is really committed to striking out on a different road from the corporate Republican establishment, he would be like TR, the trust-busting reformer who crusaded against the excesses left over from the Gilded Age. However, this seems unlikely considering who he is appointing to his cabinet and his promises about deregulation. We will see some differences from the Republican establishment in trade and foreign policy.

But I believe the President that Trump will most closely follow is Harding, who started out as a successful newspaper editor and then was elected to the Senate and then the Presidency. He ran as a pro-business conservative touting "Normalcy", enacting tax cuts for the wealthy and promoting a policy of American withdrawal from world affairs. His legacy is now overshadowed by the Teapot Dome scandal and his affair with two mistresses. Like in Harding's presidency, I think the potential for scandal in Trump's administration is high.