>>He's a bull in a China shop. It's bound to end ugly.
There was a time when "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" was a laudable behavior (as long as you're not a holdout Confederate.) ;-)
My view is simple: those Yankees voted him in, now they and we all need to make the best of it. IME: trying to trip the bull up because it doesn't belong in the china shop, makes very little sense. Especially if you own the china shop.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
