Gratifying to see sharp presidential critiques like this one from Dana Milbank remain tenable in the “personal liberties and free markets” era of The Washington Post:

By any reasonable measure, President Donald Trump’s first 100 days will be judged an epic failure.

Milbank outlines failure after failure: Legislative. Economic. Foreign policy. Constitutional. And on and on.

Milbank also identifies a “key difference” between Trump and “previous attempts at executive overreach”:

We have been through ruinous periods before, but never when the president was the one actively and knowingly causing the ruin. During past upheaval, there “wasn’t this sense that the White House, the president, is directing the destruction of 250-year-old American values,” [David Greenberg of Rutgers University] says. He also notes that, because of the expansion of the executive powers over the past century, particularly during the New Deal and the Cold War, Trump has more ability to cause destruction than his predecessors did. “I don’t think we’ve ever had the combination of such a vast and extensive executive apparatus and at the same time an attempt to eliminate the built-in safeguards,” he says.

The entire piece is a recitation of receipts, the many dozens of terrible, horrible, no good, very bad things Trump and his regime have unleashed on this country. It’s relentless. A political pummeling.

More like this, please. If “democracy dies in darkness,” shine some damn light.