https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5171000-why-trumps-regime-is-fated-to-collapse/?tbref=hp
Disregard the social-science jargon and notice that Deutsch’s model nicely describes the Trump administration. The putatively omniscient and omnipotent president occupies the apex. Just below him are a score of fulsome yes-ministers too terrified to provide him with correct information or disagree with his views. Existing governmental institutions are being eviscerated by Elon Musk, leaving their remaining employees in exceedingly vulnerable, atomized positions that encourage buck-passing, kicking the can down the road and many other dysfunctional behaviors that merely compound the structural inability of the system to make decisions efficiently and effectively.
Just as Putin has been a disaster for Russia, so too Trump will be a disaster for America. Fortunately, although hyper-centralization may sound like a good idea for a man who believes he is ushering in a golden age, it doesn’t work. Unbeknownst to them, both Trump and Putin are fated to find permanent residence on the ash heap of history.
The other bit of good news is that, since both men are at the cores of the hyper-centralized systems they have constructed, those systems are unlikely to survive in their absence. There is hope for a restoration of democracy in America, and perhaps even in Russia.
Putin's been a disaster for Russia? Maybe for the average Russian but for Russia as a country? Russia was on the verge of collapse when he took over. Now it's one of three superpowers in the new tripolar world. It has European at its feet because of its oil and military threats. Its leaders are feted in way more places in the world than American ones. Russia as a country is doing quite well.
ReplyDeleteAs for Trump, you forget what I told you when he got elected. We have a very unique situation here - a president going into his term knowing he has no need to care about re-election and with no true party loyalty to care about getting his successor re-elected. In 2028, Trump will walk away from all of this. If the country is doing well, great. If it's burning to the ground, great. He won't care because he'll be done.