The Political Page, T+264 -- October 12, 2017

Death by a thousand cuts: Trump to start unwinding ObamaCare with executive orders. Following through on his campaign promises even as his party does not.

Twitter suspends account of woman involved with Harvey Weinstein. Fingerprints of Hillary's War Room all over this one.  Headline: Weinstein sex scandal exposes Hollywood's wall of silence. The good news: the story is not going away. The victims won't let it go away and unlike the women involved with Bill Clinton, the Weinstein women are well known and powerful in the movie industry. [Later: the story that Twitter suspended the account of Rose McGowan was a bit disingenuous. It appears the account was suspended within the rules of Twitter; it was suspended for 12 hours, but Ms McGowan still had her account -- she was still allowed to tweet, but rules were more strict during those 12 house. Her original offense (and it was probably picked up by a computer) was the "fact" she was posted the telephone number of a private individual). From what I've read, the suspension was a non-story; has now been resolved; and, the offense was a fairly serious offense, as social media things go. Probably had nothing to do with Hillary or her War Room.

Headline: no Obama documents in Obama library? Historians puzzled by Chicago center plans. The headline is a bit misleading. The documents will be digitized. Original documents will be elsewhere. This is how Fox News loses its objectivity, at least as far as I am concerned. I think I have visited only one presidential library -- I found the experience low on my list of things of how I would like to spend the day.

Clash: Turkey and the West clash -- pleasing Russia and Iran.

Here’s one measure of where Turkey stands in today’s world.

Russian and Iranian citizens are free to enter the country without a visa. Americans, following the recent spat over the detention of a U.S. consulate employee, are essentially barred from traveling to their fellow North Atlantic Treaty Organization ally.

And, a WSJ reporter is sentenced to prison in Turkey for story on Kurds. This is most disturbing:

Mr. Erdogan, however, entertained high hopes for a reset under President Donald Trump, who refused to criticize Turkey’s deteriorating human-rights record. These expectations seemed to be validated as recently as Sept. 21, when Mr. Trump proclaimed at a meeting in New York that Turkey and the U.S. are “as close as we have ever been” and Mr. Erdogan reciprocated by praising “my dear friend Donald.”

NAFTA: falling apart? Good riddance.