Tuesday, April 22, 2025

 

The Coming Disaster

 


Good presidents and bad face them: the cataclysmic event that somehow no one saw coming. Sometimes it is a natural disaster (Katrina) or a pandemic or an economic collapse or a military conflict or... well, it's hard to even know.

The last one we faced was the pandemic, and the truth is that Trump handled that pretty well (though he later disowned most of the actions he took). He shut things down, imposed health mandates, rushed vaccines to the market, and increased government spending to keep the economy going. Seriously-- it was not a bad response. Things could have been much worse if he had refused to do any of those four things (though, of course, it could have been better and more consistent).

That was a different administration, though, one that had not ejected from government the people with expertise in each of those areas, and which still maintained a civil service able to carry out those crucial tasks. It could be very different the next time.  Trump had conflicts with the medical experts in 2020, but he more or less did what they advised. But now, there are not really the same kind of medical experts in place, or expertise in other key areas. 

I don't wish any such cataclysmic event on our country-- but somehow they do find us.

Comments:
He is an expert at creating disasters.
 
It is his core means/strategy for being in control.
 
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