I expected something much better (and more rational) from a political science prof.

Praising his speech to Congress?  If reading a speech that someone else wrote from a teleprompter qualifies as "effective" I hate to think what it would the author regards as ineffective.  (BTW, didn't Trump and everyone else bitch about Obama's use of a teleprompter?)

"Some good Cabinet appointments..."??  Interesting that he avoided naming any - given that he'd just named Trump's security team that can't have been an unintentional oversight.  I have to interpret that omission as being an admission that he can't name any.

Trumpcare is worthy of an separate discussion but everything that we've seen so far is going to be a disaster for a huge chunk of the poor, including many (most?) of the 20 million that now have medical coverage due to Obamacare.  And that doesn't count those coal miners that are going to lose their black lung benefits.  Or other groups that will be thrown under the bus because ...