He isn't going to be succeeding though. Unless he starts acting like a president.
So everyone can get back to doing the things that made them elect someone like him in the first place? Yeah, terrific. Essentially, what you seem to be saying is whatever President Trump does will be wrong because President Trump?
Anyway, the military controls the military, not a mere Commander-in-Chief.
Yes - hence I added the caveat in another post - this is all so unpredictable. I would say he is the bending the status quo as far as it can go, something has to give. I would say it's going to snap back into usual form at some point but quite possible it might just snap into pieces
Your assumption, or someone's assumption, seems to be that everyone that voted for Trump did so because of his anti-establishment pitch, or anti-swamp pitch, you might say.
I think he got a lot of anti-Hillary support, and much of that will be less than enamored with his continual run ins with traditional government and, in some cases, the constitution. I just don't think there's been enough time and enough incidents to see the full impact of that.
Or to put it another way, if he wants 4 more years at some point he is going to have to play some 'ball', as the Americans put it,
I don't think I said that. I certainly didn't intend to do so.
In ordinary politics the military controls the military because the President is house-trained. This is not ordinary politics.
I expect it will work itself out but he is still a scary guy to have in charge of anything.