OPINION — Editorial

Goodbye, good riddance

With a week like that, why wouldn't you make a change?

What this White House needs is direction. A new direction. One that unites the country. Something like Morning Again in America. And since there's little to be done with the man at the top, the most we can hope for is that he surrounds himself with more John Kellys and H.R. McMasters and Rex Tillersons. And fewer Steve Bannons.

The nation doesn't need more bomb-throwers whispering in the president's ear. The president might have finally decided that last Tuesday evening's press conference was his biggest mistake yet, and whoever gave him the advice to go out there and give 'em hell--when what the country needed after Charlottesville was just the opposite--wasn't doing the presidency or the country any good. The adults in the room knew it. See John Kelly's body language as the president waded into the press and said there were good people on both sides of the argument. (Good people among the neo-Nazis?)

Let Steve Bannon go back to what he does best: Feed altered news and conspiracy theories to the alt-right through his website(s). The president has a country to run and a people to console. Mr. Bannon didn't appear to be qualified to do the first, and didn't seem to have any desire to attempt the second.

Editorial on 08/21/2017

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