The Coming Republican Depression: How the GOP Turned America Into a Powder Keg, and Is About to Light the Match

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Incompetence most often explains better than malfeasance

I do not think tRump wants to "destroy the country", as so many people on DU seem to think. It is lazy thinking on the part of many.

tRump truly wants to make America "great again" (it didn't stop being great until tRump 1.0 and especially 2.0). He truly does because he harks back to the "Gilded Age" (that he calls the "Golden Age&quot . He does because he thinks he's in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize. He does because he thinks his legacy is going to be his face on Mount Rushmore.

The problem is that tRump is stupid and RepubliConners and the RepubliConned have drunk the koolaid. They are short-sighted, focused on quarterly corporate earnings reports and completely dismissive of long term effects like the decimation of science and universities and tourism and much more.

tRump is ignorant and stupid and his regime is incompetent and short-sighted.