text: All that is saving him (and perhaps us) from a disaster is that before inauguration day, those mines aren't as powerful or meaningful as those he is about to face.  Unfortunately these new mines are the kind that you cannot choose to avoid, let alone "gleefully jump on them.
  
  I see General Mattis (Trump's choice for Secretary of Defense) as the "canary in the coal mine"  who might just not long put up with what Charles Krauthammer (a long time conservative commentator) describes as an Administration guided by "silly randomness" .