I really do not know why people are surprised. ( See noah smith) In hiss first term he is incompetent mainly because of the chaos that occurred. It is deja vu all o ver again.
Trump does illegal things. He has fired 19 inspector generals. He cannot. He has sacked career bureaucrats. He cannot. Remember Andrew McCabe or Peter Struk? He sacked both so they would not get pension benefits. guess what. They took legal action and won.
He wants to cut spending or even redirect it. He cannot. all he can do is either sign a bill from congress or veto it.
Even worse he wanted to inflict a trade war until the sharemarket showed him what would occur and he blinked. He wants to sack any FBI agent involved in prosecuting Jan 7 events. That would endanger US national security.
His authoritarian tendencies are coming to the fore
what is worse these days there a very few adults in the room. Get worried, very worried
I should add like most wannabe dictators Trump looks to perceived internal enemies and not the much more important actual external enemies. Opportunity cost tells us organisations such as the FBI can either examine actual crimes or waste time on going after political enemies.
Clearly people such as trump and more importantly Musk have no idea of the importance of soft power.
Kruggers also offers some insight.
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