Jennifer Rubin: How Republicans got so mean and clueless

A White House takes on the personality of the president. When the president is cut off from reality, is obsessed with white “anxiety” (racism, that is) and is just plain mean, you get a White House with staff members who lack awareness, who only listen to and look like people like them, and who lack the ability even to fake empathy.The president's paranoia, secrecy and contempt for democracy course through the West Wing, spurring those in its offices to behave in bizarre ways that be