Trump and the Element of Surprise
During the Biden presidency, Trump had four long years to prepare his attacks on the U.S. government and the people it served. How to destroy public education, healthcare, rule of law, relations with allies, and environmental regulation. How to further enrich himself and his billionaire donors at the expense of the American people.
As suggested at left, part of the reason for his success thus far is that he sprang all these traps in a matter of less than two months from the moment he took office, using the element of surprise to overwhelm us.
The answer to the question posed at left isn’t incorrect, but it’s rare, and perhaps even weird.
There are a ton of indicators as to how pathetic American society has become. One is that people actually care what Elon Musk thinks about what the Japanese and Italians should do.
Jack Daniels’ home county in Tennessee voted overwhelming for Trump (obviously), but how happy are these people today?
Trump’s lack of interest in learning about the workings of the world around him does, in fact, render him incompetent. He has essentially zero knowledge of the geopolitics that are required for his job, and that’s just fine with him.
We didn’t have something specifically called “Civics” when I was in elementary school, but by the time we were in 5th or 6th grade, every single kid in our class understood that the United States government consisted of three co-equal branches.
Let’s be honest. Very few Americans dispute the assertion that “Trump is a monster.” Almost half of U.S. voters approve of Trump’s aggression in cutting spending on Ukraine, NATO, education, environmental protection, disease control, etc.
The author of the meme at right puts this concept nicely.
At left are opposing views on the subject of human empathy, including one from German-American historian and philosopher Hannah Arendt, one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century.
In an earlier post, 
Recently, we learned about Trump’s practice of charging businesspeople $5 million for an audience with him. Now, we have the news at left.
