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Random thoughts - 2
Let's be honest with ourselves. The majority of Americans doesn't care about:
1) Mexican immigrants;
2) Muslim immigrants;
3) Holocaust;
4) Global Warming;
5) Russia;
6) The size of the crowd at Trump's inauguration;
7) The size of Trump's vocabulary or how much he's lying;
etc.
What they do care about is the size of his personal wealth and his ability to deliver a better life for them, i.e. (in no particular order) more money, health, fun, and self-esteem.
So far, he's delivering on fun and self-esteem for his core. A lot of people expect that by lowering taxes and removing regulations, he'll deliver on money. Moreover, if you own a portfolio of stocks, you've already seen a sizable bump since he's been elected. The health issue is more thorny but somehow people choose to believe that he can do it.
To me, his biggest flaws are short-term focus, compulsive lying, inability to execute complex actions, laziness and susceptibility to manipulation, e.g. through flattery and/or aggrandizing. He's not a good CEO for an operating company.
His biggest strengths are amorality, ability to detect and exploit vulnerabilities in others, access to people who can execute if motivated and treated properly, high risk tolerance.
My biggest concerns are:
a) if he and his team make a mistake in a high-stakes situation with a lot of leverage, it'll do significant damage to the country's finances and it's business relationships with parties around the world;
b) if he appoints bad judges, it'll inflict a long-term damage on the structure of the society.
c) if he engages in a war of words and perceives a slight from another party, he can get us into a trade war or an escalating military action.
All we can do now is 1) donate to the right causes; 2) express our protest directly and/or through public representatives; 3) think how to defeat him in 2018 and 2020.
upd: berating trump supporters is counterproductive. they are in a bubble now and won't stop believing in him until the bubble bursts and they go broke.
1) Mexican immigrants;
2) Muslim immigrants;
3) Holocaust;
4) Global Warming;
5) Russia;
6) The size of the crowd at Trump's inauguration;
7) The size of Trump's vocabulary or how much he's lying;
etc.
What they do care about is the size of his personal wealth and his ability to deliver a better life for them, i.e. (in no particular order) more money, health, fun, and self-esteem.
So far, he's delivering on fun and self-esteem for his core. A lot of people expect that by lowering taxes and removing regulations, he'll deliver on money. Moreover, if you own a portfolio of stocks, you've already seen a sizable bump since he's been elected. The health issue is more thorny but somehow people choose to believe that he can do it.
To me, his biggest flaws are short-term focus, compulsive lying, inability to execute complex actions, laziness and susceptibility to manipulation, e.g. through flattery and/or aggrandizing. He's not a good CEO for an operating company.
His biggest strengths are amorality, ability to detect and exploit vulnerabilities in others, access to people who can execute if motivated and treated properly, high risk tolerance.
My biggest concerns are:
a) if he and his team make a mistake in a high-stakes situation with a lot of leverage, it'll do significant damage to the country's finances and it's business relationships with parties around the world;
b) if he appoints bad judges, it'll inflict a long-term damage on the structure of the society.
c) if he engages in a war of words and perceives a slight from another party, he can get us into a trade war or an escalating military action.
All we can do now is 1) donate to the right causes; 2) express our protest directly and/or through public representatives; 3) think how to defeat him in 2018 and 2020.
upd: berating trump supporters is counterproductive. they are in a bubble now and won't stop believing in him until the bubble bursts and they go broke.
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They can blow one or two items on the list, but if they blow three or four we'll be in big trouble.