A lot of people are mistaking Trump's actions and interpreting them as if we had reasonable rational people in Congress and the bureaucracy. Under normal circumstances (i.e., dealing with reasonable rational people), I agree that simply pissing people off is not an effective leadership style. However, I believe what Trump is doing is poking his opponents enough that they lose their self-control and he's able to effectively undercut them. That actually IS an effective leadership style, albeit not one we are used to seeing at the national level and not one that we would want to see applied universally.

Remember that Trump comes from a background of creative destruction, both in his negotiations and his administrative style. He hires people and fires them quickly until he finds someone he thinks is effective. The moment they cease to be effective or cease to do things the way he wants, he gets rid of them. That is NOT how DC generally operates and it drives the establishment nuts -- but it has worked for Trump for 30 years or so.

The media and the Democrats have been driven absolutely crazy by Trump's constant needling to the point that the media has abandoned any pretext of objectivism or neutrality (which they laughingly claimed during the previous 30 years). In doing so, they have exposed themselves even to the American public that wanted to believe CNN/ABC/CBS/NBC was reporting news or that Democratic legislators really wanted to represent "the common (wo)man". Of course, some people will absolutely refuse to see what's in front of their noses but current polls show more and more of the independents/moderates are seeing through the Leftist lies. Trump's still a dick but he's a dick we can live with more than the alternative.