It’s entirely in keeping with Trump’s basic laziness and disinterest in his job. The ‘miracle’ (his words) of corona just going away let’s him off the hook from actually working. Similarly, a silver bullet vaccine means T doesn’t actually have to learn much about the disease, /1
read his briefing papers, pay attention in meetings & so on. And he can’t blame it on the media or Democrats much longer either. A thorny, mid-range problem Trump can’t blame on someone else is his ultimate nightmare: he’s either shown up as the incompetent charlatan he is or /2
he has to work, read, & learn, which he clearly can’t do. All-or-nothing approaches side-step this learning-&-working problem. You see it again and again: 1) That’s why he wanted an big bang deal with Kim Jong Un. A more realistic, middling deal would have required Trump to /3
actually learn about nuclear weapons and North Korea in order to make a good judgment about what would balance-favorable swaps in a deal with Kim. 2) That’s also why Trump just deficit spends with abandon. Why work on budget specifics and tough choices when you can just spend /4
your way to re-election? 3) The repeated, total failure of ‘infrastructure weeks’ illustrates this fundamental laziness too. Infrastructure needs in a large, modern economy like America’s are a big, complex topic. Trump would really need to read up and lead a serious policy /5
process to do infrastructure right. But Trump neither wants nor has the focus and mental discipline to do this. So it never happens and won’t if he gets re-elected. All this points out a problem with Trump I emphasize a lot here - the basic incompetence. Trump has no idea /6
what he’s doing. He’s a great salesman; he’s tailor-made for the shallow glitz of television. But he’s totally out of his depth for the bland detail work government requires. This is one reason I struggle with Trump’s appeal to educated voters. Trump isn’t qualified to be the /7
boss at their job or the county commissioner where they live. No serious white collar professional would actually want to work under someone like Trump. So how can they vote for him to be POTUS? I just don’t get it... END
