The Bonehead-in-Chief even manages to ruin his good policy moves

Rescinding the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule is an excellent move. It was rank social engineering, federal overreach and distortion of the housing market.

As Stanley Kurtz at National Review said in 2015:

AFFH is easily one of President Obama’s most radical initiatives, on a par with Obamacare in its transformative potential. In effect, AFFH gives the federal government a lever to re-engineer nearly every American neighborhood — imposing a preferred racial and ethnic composition, densifying housing, transportation, and business development in suburb and city alike, and weakening or casting aside the authority of local governments over core responsibilities, from zoning to transportation to education. Not only the policy but the political implications are immense — at the presidential, congressional, state, and local levels.

But count on the Very Stable Genius to frame his move in the most cringe-inducing, boneheaded way possible:

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

I am happy to inform all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low income housing built in your neighborhood...

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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I am happy to inform all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low income housing built in your neighborhood...

The democrat attacks write themselves.  "We don't want that smelly, lazy criminal element in our nice neighborhood of upright people." It's a walk in the park to construe a racist overtone. 

This has been the problem all along. The public conflates this boneheadedness with well-articulated and principled conservatism.

Thanks for nothing, VSG.