excesses

Given Republican majorities in the House as well as the Senate and the conservative Supreme Court’s hostility to environmental regulation, Trump’s anti-environmental excesses will have to be checked at the state and local levels.

But while Obama did indeed trim some of the most striking excesses of the Bush era, his record of presidential reform fell significantly short.

We still have legions of elected officials, civil servants, advocates and journalists who will use their positions to resist the next administration’s excesses.

But he’ll “vote for him one more time as a bulwark against the cultural and governance excesses of the American left.”

And like many teenagers, they pose a challenge to grown-ups who hope to curb their excesses.