'Impulsive, manipulable and jealous': Conservative says Trump is whiffing with Congress

Democrats' fears that President-elect Donald Trump will govern as a dictator — something he himself suggested on the campaign trail — may ultimately never come to pass, conservative analyst Ramesh Ponnuru wrote for The Washington Post Tuesday. Not because he wouldn't want to, but because he is too impulsive and scrambled to be able to get even his own party in Congress to bend the knee.

Ponnuru is a frequent critic from the right of Trump, particularly on matters where he bucks traditional Republican orthodoxy like trade protectionism.