Trump and Expectation
There have been many attempts to explain Trump's success in 2016. Certainly, a large anti-Hilary vote did as much damage as the anti-Trump vote will likely do this year. But the animosity toward Trump reveals an additional positive notion about Trump: I think Trump signalled a rejection of the idea that the government was wise and perceptive, could do boundless positive things and needed wise and perceptive people to guide it. Trump was the declaration of politicians' limits.
Could things change so quickly? Could a new candidate, a virtual hereditary politician of scores of years of elected office, a presumed stalking horse for an unknown group of advisors, emerge to offer government leadership and expertise just three and a half years later?
Look at how the West has accepted the virtually random--but forceful--handling of The Virus. There is no real science available. Information, as it should in science, is constantly changing, yet every nation--all with varying degrees of constitutional liberties--have rushed in with definitive and crippling solutions. Economies have been shut down. Lives, if not ruined, changed. And its citizens have been more than accepting, they have been militantly accepting. We are all centralized power believers now.
Trump's election was not a retrenching of old principles of liberty, it was those principles' last gasp.
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Good post doc.
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