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I generally agree with your blame TPTB first mindset, but in this case I think they underestimated Trump. Although he's not a deep policy thinker and historical

I generally agree with your blame TPTB first mindset, but in this case I think they underestimated Trump. Although he's not a deep policy thinker and historically has been indistinguishable from any other trendy NYC lib, he has two distinguishing traits. First, his massive ego, second, he's a violently pro-American nationalist, moreso than anyone in the past 50 years. That presents a major challenge for the globalist TPTB's current dialog - even his rhetoric is disruptive to their worldwide agenda. Maybe you're right and this is a cleverly planned dialectical antithesis that will be used to sneak in more Patriot Act style moves, but I think there's a genuine chance things have gone off script.

jessaustin 11y ago
I don't think Donny has a monopoly, among politicians, on "massive ego". As for his nationalism, I won't be surprised when he declines to build mile one of the Great Wall of Arizona. After all, he'll point out, net undocumented Mexican immigration has been negative for years. This will be the big scandal of his third year in office, that he decided to spend all those billions of dollars on more plausibly useful public infrastructure, built in more politically valuable Congressional districts. (Also, public employee pension funds.) Obama still hasn't mothballed the running joke on the taxpayers that is Guantanamo Bay, and that was nearly as important to his supporters when he was running the first time. It will take a stronger person than Donny to ignore the personal surveillance dossiers that land on his desk the day after inauguration.