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Frank Fish: Our government is dysfunctional

Our president is a not-very-smart egomaniac and would-be dictator whose main goal (and skill) seems to be publicizing himself.

Although President Trump claims to be a great negotiator, all his big international moves to date have failed to achieve anything positive — pulling out of NAFTA, TPP, The Paris Climate accord, UNESCO and the Iran nuclear deal while threatening to pull out of NATO and the World Trade Organization. His rating among European allies is 24%. (Barack Obama’s was 48%.)

We still have (marginally) the world’s largest GDP and the world’s largest — and expanding — deficit.