The Unstated Norms That Allow Democracy To Function were eliminated in the first week after a bad speech and weird press conference, International Prestige went home after week seven (it hung on longer than anticipated), Comey and Yates and Flynn and Spicer all vanished in their turn. And now Reince Priebus is out.

After the failure on the “Pass A Terrible Healthcare Thing Through The Senate” challenge, someone had to go, and it couldn’t be the new guy with the good hair who liked to call reporters and yell about himself in the third person. Mooch, shantay you stay. Reince, sashay away. (Except that if this were “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” we would all have cried and learned something and everyone would look great, and instead we have all cried and learned nothing and also run out of synonyms for “garbage fire.”)

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All the people with silly real names are being replaced by people with silly fake names.

The good news is that the Trump White House will soon consist entirely of generals, reality TV villains, people who call themselves “Mooch” and “Mad Dog” with straight faces, empty cans of Four Loko and big tufts of hair that have not slept in more than 72 hours. A fine group to have running any country, if you don’t care what happens to the country.

Frankly, I would not buy a mattress from this group. I wouldn’t ask Anthony Scaramucci to watch my laptop for me while I ran to the bathroom, and everyone knows that this is a nominal responsibility, at best. If I showed up at a carnival and saw that a man with his general demeanor was operating the ride, I would politely decline and wander off toward the fried things. But we can’t decline this ride.

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The job of chief of staff now falls to John Kelly (a general, and “one of our real stars,” according to Trump. Trump loves stars — in fact, any hot balls of explosive gas, which explains his current choice of communications director). Trump seems to think that if Kelly can fight the MS-13 gang, he can run the White House. The skillset involved is, I guess, similar.

Priebus “never won the full confidence of the president nor was granted the authority to impose a working organizational structure on [the] West Wing,” the New York Times reported. This is true. No one would ever accuse this West Wing of having a working organizational structure. Or even a malfunctioning organizational structure. A chart attempting to convey the organization of the White House would look like a hideous coiled mass of writhing snakes.

The good news is that, as some have noted, Scaramucci compensates for his lack of governing experience with his charisma and communication skills. Well, great. If there is one thing that we have learned from the Trump administration so far, it is that you can compensate for a lack of governing experience with charisma. That has worked well.

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Priebus would never be accused of possessing excess charisma, but that is just one of many things he would never be accused of, like possessing enough integrity to say no to serving under Donald Trump.

He says he resigned in private a day earlier, but he had been resigned for some considerable time. I hope the last few months of continual playground insults and hapless flailing as Trump trampled on everything he held dear were worth it.

Trump reportedly liked to remind people around him about how Priebus suggested Trump drop out after the “Access Hollywood” tape emerged. It must have been fun for Priebus to sit there looking over the wreckage of his integrity.

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His trouble in the Trump administration was that he was not enough of an Outsider, which is to say that he still remembered what shame felt like and how a government was supposed to function, and certain nights he would get kind of a pained expression on his way to doing exactly what Trump wished. This, of course, branded him as a Swamp Thing who could not possibly be listened to.

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Priebus was one of the last Adults In The Room, not that it mattered because everyone in the room was doing exactly as they pleased regardless. His function was largely decorative. What is the point of adult supervision if all you do is sit back and watch as the children set everything on fire? Still, I’m not sure I relish the prospect of the room without him.

It is not as if the clowns are running the circus, because I think clowns possess competence and you have to get a certification before you can become a clown.