Just three months in, we already see what MAGA “leadership” looks like. Critical parts of the government are being dismantled, with no coherent plan. People are being “disappeared” in unmarked vehicles. Fundamental social structures are under assault. Prices are jumping higher. The risk of recession, even depression, is increasing. Fear and despair are rising everywhere. Consumer confidence has plummeted.
Extreme tariff uncertainty has disrupted the entire economy. The stock market dropped, then rose. The treasury bond market almost collapsed. Fundamental western alliances are now in tatters. The US is threatening to invade our closest neighbors. It looks like a deliberate attempt to destroy America.
Consequently, some believe our Mad King is a Russian agent. Bailed out of several bankruptcies with shadowy money from Russia, he may be beholding to his banker. While he admires autocratic dictators, his only experience is reality TV and doesn’t have the continuity of focus required to be a reliable thug. It is much more likely he is just a “useful idiot”, vulnerable to any suggestion of the moment, sowing disruptive chaos as his mood swings wildly from one extreme to the other.
Promoted as a “good businessman”, he acts like a crook. Fourteen of his companies failed due to mismanagement, failure to deliver, or outright fraud. He routinely refused to pay suppliers, choosing to sue instead, initiating over 4,000 lawsuits. He lies for his own advantage, the goal being increased “brand worth”. He is guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. During his first term, he used his office to enrich himself on public money, treating public service as a “cash cow”. This time, his economic “policy” is to shut down all social services in order to reduce taxes for the already wealthy, while increasing the national debt.
But actual business people know prosperity needs a stable economy. Big projects require big investments, financed over decades. When the future becomes chaotic, interest rates soar, and everything becomes increasingly risky and expensive. What we see today devastates the poor, but doesn’t help the rich either.
While a few insiders benefit from stock market swings, the tariff turmoil has caused a global economic slowdown. This has depressed crude oil prices below the level where most domestic oil production is profitable. Oil companies, which are supposedly allies of this administration, and should benefit from the “drill, baby drill” energy plan, are instead curtailing new production and even pausing stock buyback plans for their wealthy investors.
Charles Koch, a Republican mega-donor billionaire, has joined Leonard Leo, the Federalist Society architect of the current Supreme Court, to sue the administration for their tariff “policy”. Contrary to their plans, the monster they created isn’t really under their control at all.
From the first, our “leader” has been described as a “malignant narcissist”, which Wikipedia defines with the following traits. “They use, abuse, and discard people. They are obsessed with power. Everything is personal. They hold grudges and take revenge. They take pleasure from the suffering of others. Nothing is ever their fault. They are ruthless in their pursuit of what they want. They don’t have a conscience. They have many enemies.”
The Mad King is an old man, with a terrible diet, under considerable stresses. Wikipedia describes the following signs of advancing dementia: “short-term memory loss; word loss; difficulty multitasking; repetition; confusion about time and place; changes in judgment”.
Of the three choices, traitor, crook, or dementia, the truth is probably a little of all three, but dominated by an increasingly unstable mind. Whatever the internal reality or reasons, we can only judge by his actions.
My primary issue is the climate crisis. Extreme weather around the world makes the news every week. Costs are rising as destruction increases, and insurance companies are pushed to insolvency. Ignoring this, the administration is adamant the climate issue is a hoax. They are ruthlessly killing even modest attempts to address the issue, doubling down on pushing obsolete, uneconomical, and harmful energy sources. They are going so far as to stop all investigation, or even monitoring, of the changes, leaving the entire economy blind to what is happening.
The changing climate is a global problem, adversely affecting every political system, every economic system, and every individual. To completely ignore such a problem is insane, and suicidal. But here we are. Our emperor has no mind. Without a fundamental change, things will continue to fall apart.
Crispin B. Hollinshead lives in Ukiah. This and previous articles can be found at cbhollinshead.blogspot.com.
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